Medical District High School

Medical District High School is a high school of minimally staffed scale in Memphis, Tennessee, one of the schools within Memphis-Shelby County Schools, teacheing 146 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 81% leaner than the typical public school in Tennessee, which averages around 754 students.

Memphis-Shelby County Schools comprises 211 schools with combined enrollment of 111,979 students; Medical District High School is among them.

Demographically, Medical District High School logs that 78% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder looks like 14% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% White. By comparison, Shelby County as a whole is about 52% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

In the broader community, Shelby County reports that median household income runs about $63,767, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Across Shelby County's 287 public schools (combined enrollment of about 154,209 students), Medical District High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Downtown Elementary, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.