Westside Middle

Westside Middle operates as a cozy middle school in Memphis, Tennessee, one of the schools within Memphis-Shelby County Schools. Current enrollment sits at 281 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 554 students per school, that is 49% below typical.

Memphis-Shelby County Schools comprises 211 schools with combined enrollment of 111,979 students; Westside Middle is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Westside Middle reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (90%). The remainder breaks down as 4% multiracial, 3% White, 3% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 52% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

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%. Across Shelby County's 287 public schools (combined enrollment of about 154,209 students), Westside Middle is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Westside Middle School, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting. Westside Middle is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.