Hamilton High

Located at 1363 E Person Ave, in Memphis, Tennessee, Hamilton High is a small high school that educates 628 students (grades 9 through 12), part of Memphis-Shelby County Schools.

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

In terms of who attends, Hamilton High logs that 92% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 52% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Shelby County indicate median household income runs about $63,767, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Shelby County's 287 public schools (combined enrollment of about 154,209 students), Hamilton High is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Hamilton School, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Hamilton High operates from an inner-city location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 626 students in 2018 compared to 628 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 97% to 92%.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.