Ridgeway Early Learning Center

Located at 3435 3435 Ridge Meadow Pkwy, in Memphis, Tennessee, Ridgeway Early Learning Center is an one-room-style elementary campus that caters to 178 students (grade pre-K), run under Memphis-Shelby County Schools. That puts it 62% below the typical public school in Tennessee, which averages around 470 students.

Memphis-Shelby County Schools runs 211 schools in total, collectively educating 111,979 students. Ridgeway Early Learning Center is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Ridgeway Early Learning Center logs that 88% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 12% Hispanic. By comparison, Shelby County as a whole is about 52% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Shelby County indicate the typical household earns roughly $63,767 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Across Shelby County's 287 public schools (combined enrollment of about 154,209 students), Ridgeway Early Learning Center is one campus in the mix.

Winridge Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

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