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Lane College

School colors: Cardinal and royal blue

LANE COLLEGE HISTORIC DISTRICT, JACKSON, MADISON COUNTY, TN
JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ M.D., 2015-10-12 10:51:52, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Jackson, Tennessee · Founded 1882

Private · Four-year · ~820 students

www.lanecollege.edu · official site

Founding

Lane College was founded in 1882 by the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, and the CME High School began its first session on November 12, 1882, under its first principal and teacher, Jennie E. Lane, daughter of founder Isaac Lane. The school was renamed Lane Institute in 1884 and chartered under the laws of the State of Tennessee.

Source: History of Lane College, read 2026-09-14.

On the official record

Campus address
545 Lane Ave, Jackson, TN 38301-4598
Control
Private not-for-profit
Students
~820 students
Directory id
220598
OPE id
00349900
Student aid
Takes part in Title IV student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
Location
545 Lane Ave, Jackson, TN. See it on the Ledger map.
Where this location comes fromCampus location from IPEDS 2024-25This campus location comes from the federal IPEDS 2024-25 record, used as published, so the pin on the map is the campus.IPEDS Institutional Characteristics, Directory information (HD2024), 2024-25 collection, file dated 2025-09-21, retrieved 2026-09-14: coordinate 35.627378, -88.806535 as published. The Census Bureau geocoder returned No Match for the address on file, which no longer decides placement.

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Sources

  1. U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. IPEDS Institutional Characteristics, Directory information (HD2024), 2024-25 provisional data collection. Unit id 220598. https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/data/HD2024.zip. File dated 2025-09-21.
  2. U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education. Higher Education Programs Eligibility Matrix, sheet 'HBCU', dated 2026-06-08. https://www.ed.gov/media/document/fy-2026-higher-education-programs-eligibility-matrix-june-8-2026-114185.xlsx.
  3. History of Lane College. https://www.lanecollege.edu/about/history-of-lane-college. Read 2026-09-14.
  4. Students: 822 total, Fall 2023 (822 undergraduate, 0 graduate). IPEDS Fall Enrollment 2023, derived variables (DRVEF2023). https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/data/DRVEF2023.zip. File dated 2024-09-30, read 2026-09-17.
  5. School colors: Cardinal and royal blue. Values as stated. Lane College, Wikipedia (revision 1374182150). Read 2026-09-16.
  6. Photograph: JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ M.D., 2015-10-12 10:51:52, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LANE_COLLEGE_HISTORIC_DISTRICT,_JACKSON,_MADISON_COUNTY,_TN.jpg. Retrieved 2026-09-16.
  7. U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, batch address service, benchmark Public_AR_Current. https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/.

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