Exceptional Children Special Placements

At 160 S Hollywood in Memphis, Tennessee, Exceptional Children Special Placements operates as a high-enrollment combined-grade school. The grade span is pre-K through 12, and enrollment is 551 students. An average school in this group (combined schools in Tennessee) has about 243 students.

Memphis-Shelby County Schools enrolls 111,979 students, and its 211 schools include Exceptional Children Special Placements.

Black students are the majority at Exceptional Children Special Placements, with 62% of enrollment. Other groups make up 22% White, 13% Hispanic, and 3% Asian. Shelby County as a whole is about 52% Black, so the school's share is higher. Pick two students at random and there is a 55% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.

Recent Census Bureau figures for Shelby County show that the median household income is $63,767, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 34%, and roughly 14% of residents are in poverty. Besides Exceptional Children Special Placements, Shelby County has 286 other public schools.

The next-closest public school is Middle College High, about 0.5 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8.

NCES describes the area around Exceptional Children Special Placements as City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.

Compared with 2017-18, the school had 90 fewer students in 2024-25. Over that span, the White share moved 20 points, to 22%.

Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss school safety, transportation, and start times at Exceptional Children Special Placements. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.