Memphis Merit Academy

Memphis Merit Academy operates as a moderately sized K-5 school in Memphis, Tennessee, operated by Memphis-Shelby County Schools. Current enrollment sits at 424 students spanning grades K through 8.

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

Looking at the student body, Memphis Merit Academy logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (96%). Beyond that, the school shows 4% Hispanic. By comparison, Shelby County as a whole is about 52% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Shelby County indicate the typical household earns roughly $63,767 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Memphis Merit Academy is one of 287 public schools in Shelby County (combined enrollment of about 154,209 students).

The closest other public school is Evans Elementary, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a city-core site. As a public charter, Memphis Merit Academy runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

In the discussion threads here, members of the Memphis Merit Academy community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.