Soldiers Memorial Middle School

Soldiers Memorial Middle School is one of the small 6-8 campuss in Tazewell, Tennessee, run under Claiborne County, with 360 students on its rolls from grades 5 through 8. By comparison, Tennessee's public schools average about 554 students each, so Soldiers Memorial Middle School sits 35% leaner than that benchmark.

Soldiers Memorial Middle School is one of 13 schools operated by Claiborne County, a district that enrolls 3,967 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Soldiers Memorial Middle School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (93%). Other groups include 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Claiborne County as a whole.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Claiborne County indicate the typical household earns roughly $49,379 per year, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Claiborne County's 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,967 students), Soldiers Memorial Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Claiborne Virtual Learning Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Soldiers Memorial Middle School.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Soldiers Memorial Middle School has shrank 29%, going from 509 students in 2018 to 360 in 2025.

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