Westside Elementary

Set in Memphis, Tennessee, Westside Elementary is a tight-knit primary school, overseen by Memphis-Shelby County Schools. It caters to 269 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Tennessee's public schools average about 470 students each, so Westside Elementary sits 43% leaner than that benchmark.

Memphis-Shelby County Schools comprises 211 schools with combined enrollment of 111,979 students; Westside Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Westside Elementary records that 87% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% White. By comparison, Shelby County as a whole is about 52% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Shelby County put median household earnings sit near $63,767, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. In all, Shelby County runs 287 public schools (combined enrollment of about 154,209 students), of which Westside Elementary is one.

Westside Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 7-year window. Westside Elementary's enrollment has fell 19% since 2018, when it stood at 332 (now 269).

On allk12, members of the Westside Elementary community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.