City University School Girls Preparatory

City University School Girls Preparatory, a micro-enrollment intermediate school in Memphis, Tennessee, operated by Memphis-Shelby County Schools, works with 94 students, covering grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Tennessee's public schools average about 554 students each, so City University School Girls Preparatory sits 83% below that benchmark.

City University School Girls Preparatory is one of 211 schools operated by Memphis-Shelby County Schools, a district that teaches 111,979 students overall.

On demographics, City University School Girls Preparatory reports that 94% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 5% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 52%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Shelby County) records that the typical household earns roughly $63,767 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. City University School Girls Preparatory is one of 287 public schools in Shelby County (combined enrollment of about 154,209 students).

The closest other public school is City University School Of Liberal Arts, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area. As a public charter, City University School Girls Preparatory runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. City University School Girls Preparatory's enrollment has shrank 3% since 2018, when it stood at 97 (now 94).

Inside the community feed, members of the City University School Girls Preparatory community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.