Melrose High

Located at 2870 Deadrick Ave, in Memphis, Tennessee, Melrose High is a middle-of-the-pack senior high that teaches 645 students (grades 9 through 12), part of Memphis-Shelby County Schools.

Memphis-Shelby County Schools runs 211 schools in total, collectively educating 111,979 students. Melrose High is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Melrose High shows that 85% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school records 12% Hispanic. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 52%.

Across the wider county, 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Melrose High is one of 287 public schools in Shelby County (combined enrollment of about 154,209 students).

Dunbar Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 10%: 587 students in 2018 compared to 645 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment edged down from 95% to 85% over that span.

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