South Clinton Elementary

As a tight-knit elementary school in Clinton, Tennessee, South Clinton Elementary teaches 231 students from grades K through 6, one of the schools within Clinton. Enrollment runs roughly 51% leaner than the state mean of about 470.

Within Clinton, which oversees 3 schools and 963 students, South Clinton Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, South Clinton Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (85%). The remainder breaks down as 7% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Anderson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,183 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Anderson County's 30 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,059 students), South Clinton Elementary is one campus in the mix.

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

South Clinton Elementary operates from a commuter-belt location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at South Clinton Elementary has fell 12%, going from 263 students in 2018 to 231 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 90% to 85%.

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