Shelby County Schools (Tennessee)
The Shelby County School District is a public school district headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee.[1] It serves Shelby County, Tennessee, except for the city of Memphis. The district includes all of the public schools in Shelby County outside the corporate limits of the city of Memphis, including schools located within the six incorporated towns of Arlington, Bartlett, Collierville, Germantown, Lakeland and Millington.
On March 8, 2011, residents voted to disband Memphis City Schools, effectively merging it with the Shelby County School District.[2]
Total enrollment, as of the 2010-2011 school year, is about 47,000 students,[3] making the district the fourth largest in Tennessee.[4]
Governance and administration
The district is governed by a seven-member board of education. Board members represent seven special election districts in the Shelby County school district and are elected to four-year terms. Until 1998, board members were appointed by the Shelby County Commission.
The district is led by its 23rd superintendent, John Aitken, who was appointed to the position in 2009 to succeed Bobby Webb. Aitken has been affiliated with the district since 1983, starting as a math teacher at Collierville Middle School. After nine years as a classroom teacher, he became assistant principal and later principal of Houston High School.[5]
Aitken's predecessor, Dr. Bobby G. Webb, was superintendent from January 2002 until 2009. Previously he had spent 14 years as superintendent of public schools in Lauderdale County.[6] He is the only superintendent ever to be recognized twice by the Tennessee Organization of School Superintendents as Tennessee's Superintendent of the Year, having received that distinction in 1996 and 2001.
Accreditation
All schools in the school district are accredited. Every school meets the standards of the Tennessee State Department of Education and the accreditation standards of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS). The Shelby County School District was the first large district in Tennessee to be accredited in its entirety by SACS.[4]
List of schools
Elementary Schools
Secondary schools
Middle schools
K-8 schools
High schools
Note: Some areas within the Shelby County Schools coverage area are zoned to Memphis City Schools' Cordova High School (located in an unincorporated area and operated by Memphis City Schools) while being zoned to Shelby County Schools' elementary and middle schools.
Former schools
Secondary schools
High schools
- Cordova High School - (The school was placed into the Memphis City Schools system in fall 2004) - Cordova High School serves some areas within the Shelby County Schools area that are zoned to Shelby County Schools-operated schools for elementary and middle school.
- Kirby High School - Hickory Hill was annexed by the City of Memphis in December, 1998, thus placing the school in the Memphis City Schools system in fall 1999. Kirby primarily serves the southeast area of Memphis going to the current city-unincorporated county boundary line. Outside of this boundary, all schools are zoned to the Shelby County Schools.
- Raleigh-Egypt High School - Annexed with Raleigh in the 1970s. Serves the west and northwest area of Raleigh.
Middle schools
- Kirby Middle School
- Raleigh-Egypt Middle School - Annexed with Raleigh in the 1970s.
Elementary schools
- Brownsville Road Elementary
- Capleville Elementary - Former elementary school on Shelby Drive, building vacant, but still owned by Shelby County Schools. Building destroyed by fire in 2010.
- Egypt Elementary - Annexed with Raleigh in the 1970s.
- Kate Bond Elementary School - (Kate Bond was placed into the Memphis City Schools system in fall 2004)
- Millington East Elementary School (Merged with Millington South)
- Millington South Elementary School (Merged with Millington East)
- Ross Elementary
- Winchester Elementary - Annexed with Whitehaven in the 1970s.
See also
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External links
References
- ^ "1b.jpg." Shelby County Schools. Retrieved on July 15, 2011. "160 S. Hollywood St. Memphis, TN 38112"
- ^ McMillin, Zack (8 March 2011). "Memphis voters OK school charter surrender". The Commercial Appeal. http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2011/mar/08/memphis-school-charter-approval/. Retrieved 9 March 2011.
- ^ Campbell Robertson, Memphis to Vote on Transferring School System to County, The New York Times, January 27, 2011
- ^ a b District Information, Shelby County Schools website, accessed January 27, 2011
- ^ http://www.scsk12.org/SCS/departments/superintendent.html John Aitken, Superintendent of Shelby County Schools, Shelby County Schools website, accessed January 27, 2011
- ^ "Superintendent Webb to Retire from Shelby County Schools". WHBQ. February 26, 2009. http://www.myfoxmemphis.com/dpp/news/022609_Superintendent_Webb_to_Retire_from_Shelby_County_Schools. Retrieved 2009-02-26.
