Union Heights Elementary

Union Heights Elementary is an elementary-level community of compact scale in Carthage, Tennessee, operated by Smith County, educateing 268 students in grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Tennessee's public schools average about 470 students each, so Union Heights Elementary sits 43% below that benchmark.

Union Heights Elementary is one of 9 schools operated by Smith County, a district that hosts 3,056 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Union Heights Elementary reports that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 9% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

Around the school, census data for Smith County shows the typical household earns roughly $66,293 per year, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Smith County runs 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,056 students), of which Union Heights Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Smith County High School, around 6.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

The school occupies a rural site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 4%: 279 students in 2018 compared to 268 in 2025.

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