Pennington Elementary

Located at 2817 Donna Hill DR, in Nashville, Tennessee, Pennington Elementary is a compact K-5 school that instructs 286 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under Davidson County. That puts it 39% below the typical public school in Tennessee, which averages around 470 students.

Davidson County runs 160 schools in total, collectively educating 81,532 students. Pennington Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Pennington Elementary logs that the most-represented group is White (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 22% Hispanic, 17% Black, 10% multiracial.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Davidson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $77,853 per year, roughly 48% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Davidson County's 177 public schools (combined enrollment of about 86,005 students), Pennington Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The Academy at Opry Mills is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pennington Elementary.

Pennington Elementary operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 290 students in 2018 compared to 286 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 58% to 50% over that span.

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