Tom Joy Elementary

Located at 2201 Jones AVE, in Nashville, Tennessee, Tom Joy Elementary is a reasonably sized K-5 school that works with 423 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by Davidson County.

Tom Joy Elementary is one of 160 schools operated by Davidson County, a district that teaches 81,532 students overall.

On demographics, Tom Joy Elementary lists that the most-represented group is Black (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 40% Hispanic, 8% White, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.

In the area at large, Davidson County reports that the typical household earns roughly $77,853 per year, roughly 48% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Davidson County's 177 public schools (combined enrollment of about 86,005 students), Tom Joy Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Rocketship Nashville Northeast Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Tom Joy Elementary operates from a high-density location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 419 students in 2018 compared to 423 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 21% to 40% across the same window.

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