Vision Preparatory Charter School

Vision Preparatory Charter School, a reasonably sized elementary campus in Memphis, Tennessee, one of the schools within Memphis-Shelby County Schools, enrolls 421 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 211 schools in Memphis-Shelby County Schools (111,979 students total), Vision Preparatory Charter School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Vision Preparatory Charter School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (99%). By comparison, Shelby County as a whole is about 52% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

In the area at large, census data for Shelby County shows the typical household earns roughly $63,767 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Across Shelby County's 287 public schools (combined enrollment of about 154,209 students), Vision Preparatory Charter School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Riverview Elementary/Middle, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The campus sits in a city-core setting. As a public charter, Vision Preparatory Charter School runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Vision Preparatory Charter School has climbed 47%, going from 287 students in 2018 to 421 in 2025.

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