Whitwell Elementary

Set in Whitwell, Tennessee, Whitwell Elementary is a reasonably sized K-5 school, one of the schools within Marion County. It instructs 482 students across grades pre-K through 4.

Marion County runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 3,844 students. Whitwell Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Whitwell Elementary lists that nearly all students (90%) are White. Beyond that, the school shows 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In the broader community, census data for Marion County shows median household income runs about $61,824, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Marion County runs 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,027 students), of which Whitwell Elementary is one.

Whitwell High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Whitwell Elementary.

Whitwell Elementary operates from a low-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 6%: 454 students in 2018 compared to 482 in 2025.

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