Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Rocketship Nashville Northeast Elementary operates as a medium-sized elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee, part of Davidson County. Current enrollment sits at 510 students spanning grades K through 5.
Davidson County comprises 160 schools with combined enrollment of 81,532 students; Rocketship Nashville Northeast Elementary is among them.
On the student-mix side, Rocketship Nashville Northeast Elementary shows that 66% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest looks like 28% Hispanic, 4% White, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 25% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.7:1, putting Rocketship Nashville Northeast Elementary higher than the state norm the norm.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Davidson County indicate median household income runs about $77,853, about 48% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Rocketship Nashville Northeast Elementary is one of 177 public schools in Davidson County (combined enrollment of about 86,005 students).
The closest other public school is Rocketship Nashville Northeast Elementary, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.
Geographically, the school is in a high-density area. As a public charter, Rocketship Nashville Northeast Elementary runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.
Five-year trend. Rocketship Nashville Northeast Elementary's enrollment has increased 22% since 2018, when it stood at 418 (now 510). The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 20.9:1 in 2018 to 31.9:1 today.
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