Thelma Barker Elementary

Located at 1470 Ashport RD, in Jackson, Tennessee, Thelma Barker Elementary is a large elementary campus that instructs 776 students (grades K through 5), part of Madison County. By comparison, Tennessee's public schools average about 470 students each, so Thelma Barker Elementary sits 65% bigger than that benchmark.

Madison County runs 25 schools in total, collectively educating 13,017 students. Thelma Barker Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Thelma Barker Elementary records that 45% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 29% Hispanic, 14% White, 9% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 36% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Madison County put median household earnings sit near $60,042, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, Madison County runs 27 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,050 students), of which Thelma Barker Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Pope School, around 1.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Thelma Barker Elementary.

Thelma Barker Elementary operates from a high-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 776 students in 2018 compared to 776 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 29% to 14% across the same window.

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