Rural Vale Elementary

Rural Vale Elementary, a low-enrollment elementary school in Tellico Plains, Tennessee, one of the schools within Monroe County, instructs 217 students, covering grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 470 students per school, that is 54% below typical.

Monroe County comprises 13 schools with combined enrollment of 5,006 students; Rural Vale Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Rural Vale Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%). The remainder comes out to 7% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. Compared to Monroe County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Monroe County indicate median household earnings sit near $56,895, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, Monroe County runs 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,538 students), of which Rural Vale Elementary is one.

Tellico Plains High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Rural Vale Elementary's enrollment has contracted 11% since 2018, when it stood at 243 (now 217). Over the same period, the White share fell from 96% to 89%.

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