Summary:
Zip code 38016 is served by a single middle school, Mt. Pisgah Middle/High School, located in Cordova, TN, which enrolls 498 students across grades 6 through 9 as part of Memphis-Shelby County Schools.
Because Mt. Pisgah is the only middle school in this zip code, there are no local schools to compare it against; instead, the most useful benchmarks are the district and state averages. Academically, the school has ranked in the bottom 11% of Tennessee middle schools for three straight years, and it trails both Memphis-Shelby County Schools and Tennessee in every tested subject. Only 12.8% of students are proficient in math and 15.8% in ELA, compared to state rates of 43.0% and 40.6%. Social studies shows the largest gap, with 18.4% proficiency versus 51.4% statewide. There are a few bright spots: 8th graders beat the district average in both math (20.9% vs. 16.6%) and ELA (15.6% vs. 14.8%), and 7th graders exceed the district in science. However, these isolated wins do not offset the overall pattern.
Notably, the school's chronic absenteeism rate of 17.9% is essentially equal to the state average of 18.3% and far better than the district's 30.2%, so attendance is not driving the low scores. Per-student spending is relatively high at $13,635, which makes the persistently low academic results even more striking and raises questions about resource effectiveness. With no reported free/reduced lunch data or student-teacher ratio, full context is limited, but the bottom line is that Mt. Pisgah Middle/High School is a consistently low-performing school with a few grade-level bright spots and significant room for improvement in core subjects, especially social studies and math.
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