Highland Oaks Middle

Highland Oaks Middle, an average-sized intermediate school in Memphis, Tennessee, operated by Memphis-Shelby County Schools, enrolls 537 students, covering grades 6 through 8.

Highland Oaks Middle is one of 211 schools operated by Memphis-Shelby County Schools, a district that teaches 111,979 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Highland Oaks Middle lists that 81% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder looks like 15% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 52%.

Around the school, census data for Shelby County shows the typical household earns roughly $63,767 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. In all, Shelby County runs 287 public schools (combined enrollment of about 154,209 students), of which Highland Oaks Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: Highland Oaks Elementary, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 23%: 697 students in 2018 compared to 537 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, members of the Highland Oaks Middle community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.