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Geeter School
Test scores
TCAP 2024-25 . % On Track or MasteredWhat this means: On the TCAP, Tennessee's statewide test, about 6 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 6 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Tennessee schools, those numbers are about 41 and 39. Reading and writing scores are down about 62 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 58 points.
About Geeter School
Geeter School operates as a well-populated K-5 school in Memphis, Tennessee, one of the schools within Memphis-Shelby County Schools. Current enrollment sits at 709 students spanning grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 470 students per school, that is 51% larger than typical.
Memphis-Shelby County Schools runs 211 schools in total, collectively educating 111,979 students. Geeter School is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, Geeter School lists that 93% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest looks like 4% multiracial. By comparison, Shelby County as a whole is about 52% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.
In the broader community, ACS estimates for Shelby County put the typical household earns roughly $63,767 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Geeter School is one of 287 public schools in Shelby County (combined enrollment of about 154,209 students).
Freedom Preparatory Academy Flagship is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.
The school occupies an inner-city site.
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