Pearl-Cohn High

Pearl-Cohn High is one of the intimate high schools in Nashville, Tennessee, one of the schools within Davidson County, with 526 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 30% below the typical public school in Tennessee, which averages around 754 students.

Within Davidson County, which oversees 160 schools and 81,532 students, Pearl-Cohn High is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Pearl-Cohn High shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (88%). Other groups include 8% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Davidson County as a whole is about 25% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Around the school, census data for Davidson County shows median household income runs about $77,853, 48% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Davidson County's 177 public schools (combined enrollment of about 86,005 students), Pearl-Cohn High is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Head Middle, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pearl-Cohn High.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Five-year trend. Pearl-Cohn High's enrollment has contracted 23% since 2018, when it stood at 679 (now 526). Black enrollment moved from 94% to 88% across the same window.

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