Sharpe Elementary

Sharpe Elementary operates as an intimate K-5 school in Memphis, Tennessee, operated by Memphis-Shelby County Schools. Current enrollment sits at 301 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Tennessee's public schools average about 470 students each, so Sharpe Elementary sits 36% smaller than that benchmark.

Memphis-Shelby County Schools runs 211 schools in total, collectively educating 111,979 students. Sharpe Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Sharpe Elementary logs that 63% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder is composed of 35% Black. By comparison, Shelby County as a whole is about 9% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Shelby County shows median household earnings sit near $63,767, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Shelby County runs 287 public schools (combined enrollment of about 154,209 students), of which Sharpe Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Cherokee Elementary, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sharpe Elementary.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sharpe Elementary has ticked down 11%, going from 339 students in 2018 to 301 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 33% to 63%.

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