Exceptional Children Special Placements

Exceptional Children Special Placements is a K-12 campus of big scale in Memphis, Tennessee, operated by Memphis-Shelby County Schools, teacheing 551 students in grades pre-K through 12. By comparison, Tennessee's public schools average about 243 students each, so Exceptional Children Special Placements sits 127% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 211 schools in Memphis-Shelby County Schools (111,979 students total), Exceptional Children Special Placements accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Exceptional Children Special Placements records that the largest single group is Black, at 62% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 22% White, 13% Hispanic, 3% Asian. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 52%.

Zooming out to the 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 Exceptional Children Special Placements is one.

Nearest neighbor: Middle College High, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Exceptional Children Special Placements.

The school occupies an urban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 14%: 641 students in 2018 compared to 551 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 42% to 22% over that span.

On this page, members of the Exceptional Children Special Placements community share and discuss classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.