Winridge Elementary

Winridge Elementary is one of the middle-of-the-pack primary schools in Memphis, Tennessee, operated by Memphis-Shelby County Schools, with 469 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Winridge Elementary shows that the largest single group is Black, at 77% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 21% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 52%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Shelby County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $63,767 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Across Shelby County's 287 public schools (combined enrollment of about 154,209 students), Winridge Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Ridgeway Early Learning Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Winridge Elementary.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Winridge Elementary's enrollment has shrank 7% since 2018, when it stood at 507 (now 469). Over the same period, the Black share decreased from 83% to 77%.

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