Ripley Elementary

Ripley Elementary is one of the middle-of-the-pack K-5 schools in Ripley, Tennessee, one of the schools within Lauderdale County, with 460 students on its rolls from grades 3 through 5.

Lauderdale County runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 3,277 students. Ripley Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Ripley Elementary reports that the largest single group is Black at 54%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 35% White, 5% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Lauderdale County as a whole is about 34% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

In the broader community, Lauderdale County reports that median household income runs about $49,879, 12% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 18%. Ripley Elementary is one of 7 public schools in Lauderdale County (combined enrollment of about 3,277 students).

Nearest neighbor: Ripley Middle School, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Ripley Elementary.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Five-year trend. Ripley Elementary's enrollment has shrank 26% since 2018, when it stood at 624 (now 460). The White share of enrollment contracted from 40% to 35% over that span.

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