Westside Middle

Westside Middle is a low-enrollment middle-grades school in Memphis, Tennessee, that operates as a charter school. The school teaches grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 281 students. That puts enrollment 49% below the 554-student average for middle schools in Tennessee.

Westside Middle is run by Memphis-Shelby County Schools, whose 211 schools enroll 111,979 students.

Of every 100 students at Westside Middle, about 90 are Black. It is also 4% multiracial, 3% White, and 3% Hispanic. For comparison, the population of Shelby County is roughly 52% Black. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 19, compared with 70 nationally.

Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Shelby County show that median household income comes to about $63,767, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 34% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 14%. The county's public schools total 287, with about 154,209 students.

Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Westside Middle School, is less than a tenth of a mile. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles.

Locale: City: Large. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more. Westside Middle is a charter school, a type of public school that operates under a charter.

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