Sterchi Elementary

Set in Knoxville, Tennessee, Sterchi Elementary is a tight-knit K-5 school, one of the schools within Knox County. It caters to 399 students across grades K through 5.

Knox County runs 93 schools in total, collectively educating 60,185 students. Sterchi Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Sterchi Elementary logs that 64% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 14% Black, 13% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 80% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

Across the wider county, census data for Knox County shows median household income runs about $74,222, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Knox County's 103 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,014 students), Sterchi Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Inskip Elementary, around 1.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sterchi Elementary.

Sterchi Elementary operates from an urban location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 5%: 419 students in 2018 compared to 399 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 78% to 64%.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.