Salem Elementary School

Located at 3275 St. Bernard DR, in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Salem Elementary School is a big primary school that instructs 946 students (grades pre-K through 6), overseen by Murfreesboro. By comparison, Tennessee's public schools average about 470 students each, so Salem Elementary School sits 101% above that benchmark.

Across the 13 schools in Murfreesboro (9,342 students total), Salem Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Salem Elementary School logs that the most-represented group is White (55%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 19% Black, 11% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 6% Asian. By comparison, Rutherford County as a whole is about 66% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Rutherford County indicate median household income runs about $85,470, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Rutherford County's 69 public schools (combined enrollment of about 61,904 students), Salem Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Scales Elementary School, around 1.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Salem Elementary School.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

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