Craigmont High

As a middle-of-the-pack high school in Memphis, Tennessee, Craigmont High serves 968 students from grades 9 through 12, part of Memphis-Shelby County Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 28% larger than the state mean of about 754.

Within Memphis-Shelby County Schools, which oversees 211 schools and 111,979 students, Craigmont High is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Craigmont High shows that 84% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 10% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 52% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

Across the wider county, census data for Shelby County shows median household income runs about $63,767, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. In all, Shelby County runs 287 public schools (combined enrollment of about 154,209 students), of which Craigmont High is one.

Craigmont Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Craigmont High.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 12%: 867 students in 2018 compared to 968 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment edged down from 88% to 84% over that span.

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