Compass Community School Midtown Campus

As a close-knit secondary school in Memphis, Tennessee, Compass Community School Midtown Campus hosts 373 students from grades 9 through 12, operated by Memphis-Shelby County Schools. That puts it 51% below the typical public school in Tennessee, which averages around 754 students.

Across the 211 schools in Memphis-Shelby County Schools (111,979 students total), Compass Community School Midtown Campus accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Compass Community School Midtown Campus shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 64% of enrollment; the rest breaks down as 32% Black, 2% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 9%.

Across the wider county, census data for Shelby County shows the typical household earns roughly $63,767 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Shelby County runs 287 public schools (combined enrollment of about 154,209 students), of which Compass Community School Midtown Campus is one.

Idlewild Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Compass Community School Midtown Campus.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting. Compass Community School Midtown Campus operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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