Head Middle

Head Middle, a cozy middle school in Nashville, Tennessee, overseen by Davidson County, hosts 342 students, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts it 38% leaner than the typical public school in Tennessee, which averages around 554 students.

Davidson County comprises 160 schools with combined enrollment of 81,532 students; Head Middle is among them.

On demographics, Head Middle logs that the largest single group is Black, at 56% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 29% White, 8% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Davidson County) shows that median household earnings sit near $77,853, 48% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Davidson County's 177 public schools (combined enrollment of about 86,005 students), Head Middle is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Martin Luther King Jr School, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Head Middle has ticked down 41%, going from 582 students in 2018 to 342 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.