Pleasant Ridge Elementary

Pleasant Ridge Elementary is one of the small elementary campuss in Knoxville, Tennessee, run under Knox County, with 299 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 36% smaller than the typical public school in Tennessee, which averages around 470 students.

Across the 93 schools in Knox County (60,185 students total), Pleasant Ridge Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Pleasant Ridge Elementary shows that White students make up the majority at 56%. The remainder is composed of 21% Hispanic, 13% multiracial, 9% Black. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 80%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Knox County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $74,222 per year, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Knox County's 103 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,014 students), Pleasant Ridge Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Northwest Middle School, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pleasant Ridge Elementary has declined 21%, going from 379 students in 2018 to 299 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share decreased from 20% to 9%.

In the discussion threads here, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.