Veritas College Preparatory

Veritas College Preparatory is one of the minimally staffed intermediate schools in Memphis, Tennessee, run under Memphis-Shelby County Schools, with 137 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. That puts it 75% smaller than the typical public school in Tennessee, which averages around 554 students.

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

In terms of who attends, Veritas College Preparatory logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (93%); the rest comes out to 5% multiracial. By comparison, Shelby County as a whole is about 52% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

In the broader community, Shelby County reports that the typical household earns roughly $63,767 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Veritas College Preparatory is one of 287 public schools in Shelby County (combined enrollment of about 154,209 students).

The closest other public school is Memphis College Preparatory, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Veritas College Preparatory.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area. Veritas College Preparatory operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 6%: 146 students in 2018 compared to 137 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment contracted from 99% to 93% over that span.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.