Memphis, Tennessee

== Education ==
{{Main|Education in Memphis, Tennessee}}
[[File:Nurses.gif|thumb|Early nursing class in Memphis]]

===Primary and secondary===
The city is served by [[Shelby County Schools (Tennessee)|Memphis-Shelby County Schools]] (formerly Shelby County Schools). On March 8, 2011, residents voted to dissolve the charter for [[Memphis City Schools]], effectively merging it with the Shelby County School District.<ref>{{cite news|last=McMillin|first=Zack|title=Memphis voters OK school charter surrender|url=http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2011/mar/08/memphis-school-charter-approval/|access-date=March 9, 2011|newspaper=The Commercial Appeal|date=March 8, 2011}}</ref> After issues with state law and court challenges, the merger took effect the start of the 2013–14 school year. In Shelby County, six incorporated cities voted to establish separate school systems in 2013.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}

The Memphis-Shelby County School System operates 222 elementary, middle, and high schools.<ref name="MSCSData">{{cite web |title=District Detail for Memphis-Shelby County Schools |url=https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/districtsearch/district_detail.asp?Search=2&details=1&ID2=4700148&DistrictID=4700148 |website=National Center for Education Statistics |access-date=January 29, 2024 |language=EN}}</ref>

The Memphis area is also home to many private, college-prep schools, including:

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* [[Briarcrest Christian School]] (co-ed)
* [[Christian Brothers High School (Memphis, Tennessee)|Christian Brothers High School]] (boys)
* [[Evangelical Christian School]] (co-ed)
* [[First Assembly Christian School]] (co-ed)
* [[St. Mary's Episcopal School]] (girls)
* [[Hutchison School]] (girls) 
* [[Lausanne Collegiate School]] (co-ed)
* [[Memphis University School]] {{efn|MUS is a secondary school unaffiliated with the [[University of Memphis]].}} (boys) 
*[[Saint Benedict at Auburndale]] (co-ed)
*[[St. Agnes Academy-St. Dominic School|St. Agnes Academy]] (girls)
*[[Immaculate Conception Cathedral School (Memphis, Tennessee)|Immaculate Conception Cathedral School]] (girls)
* [[Elliston Baptist Academy]] (co-ed)
* [[Memphis Harding Academy]] (co-ed) 
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===Postsecondary===
Colleges and universities in the city include:

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* The [[University of Memphis]]
* [[Rhodes College]]
* [[Christian Brothers University]]
* [[LeMoyne–Owen College]]
* [[Baptist College of Health Sciences]]
* [[Memphis Theological Seminary]]
* [[Harding School of Theology]]
* [[Reformed Theological Seminary]] (satellite campus) 
* William R. Moore College of Technology
* [[Southern College of Optometry]]
* [[Southwest Tennessee Community College]]
* Tennessee Technology Center at Memphis
* Visible Music College
* [[Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary]]
* The [[University of Tennessee Health Science Center]]. 
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Memphis also has campuses of several for-profit post-secondary institutions, including Concorde Career College, [[ITT Technical Institute]], [[Vatterott College]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vatterott.edu/memphis_dividend.asp |title=Career College in Memphis Dividend, TN – Vatterott |website=Vatterott.edu |date=September 26, 2014 |access-date=November 15, 2016 |archive-date=December 2, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161202161737/http://www.vatterott.edu/memphis_dividend.asp |url-status=dead }}</ref> and [[University of Phoenix]]. [[Remington College]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Remington College &#124; Community Involvement &#124; 3 Lives Blood Drive &#124; Adopt Our School |url=http://community.remingtoncollege.edu/timeline.php |access-date=July 2, 2010 |publisher=Community.remingtoncollege.edu}}</ref> is a local nonprofit post-secondary institution.

The [[University of Tennessee College of Dentistry]] was founded in 1878, making it the oldest dental college in the [[Southern United States|South]], and the third oldest public college of [[dentistry]] in the United States.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.utmem.edu/dentistry/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000823172400/http://www.utmem.edu/dentistry/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 23, 2000 |title=Univ Tennessee: College of Dentistry |access-date=July 13, 2017}}</ref>