Raleigh-Egypt High School (REHS) is a secondary school (grades 9-12) located at 3970 Voltaire Road in Raleigh, a section of Memphis, Tennessee, United States. It is part of the Shelby County Schools district. It shares a campus with Egypt Central Elementary School and Raleigh-Egypt Middle School.
Map of Raleigh in Shelby County, Tennessee
The Origins of Raleigh-Egypt High School
When REHS was built in 1969, it was part of the Shelby County School System. Raleigh Egypt High's name reflects two areas it serves: Raleigh, a large, previously incorporated area in north-central Memphis, and Egypt, a small unincorporated community that was one of the earliest settlements in Shelby County.
Picking up on the latter name, the school's athletic teams are called The Pharaohs, the mascot is a Pharaoh, the yearbook is The Sphinx, and the student newspaper is The Scroll.
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Academic Performance and School Ratings
Egypt Elementary School is a public school for students in grades Pre-K-5 in Memphis, TN and is served by the Shelby County Schools in Tennessee. The school has a total enrollment of 501 and maintains a student-teacher ratio of 18:1. Academic records show that 17% of students achieve proficiency in math, and 21% are proficient in reading. Egypt Elementary School has received feedback and ratings, with a Niche grade of C and a GreatSchools Rating of 4 out of 10.
Recent Developments and Challenges
Raleigh-Egypt has been under a microscope since 2012 when the high school made the state’s “priority school” list of its 5 percent lowest-performing schools. In 2015, the school almost was taken over by the state-run Achievement School District but was spared at the 11th hour when academic growth exceeded expectations.
This school year, Shelby County leaders reconfigured the high school to include middle school grades after the ASD took control of nearby Raleigh-Egypt Middle School and assigned it to a charter operator. That maneuver allowed the local district to retain more than half of the middle school students and funding that it would have lost to the state-run district.
Raleigh-Egypt Middle-High School has about 900 students.
A typical school building
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Shelby County’s high-profile school turnaround program, which is also one of its more expensive initiatives, would grow this fall by two more schools under Superintendent Dorsey Hopson’s proposed budget.Raleigh-Egypt Middle-High School emerged this week as a second school planned for the Innovation Zone. The superintendent already had tagged Sheffield Elementary to enter the transformation model.
If Hopson’s budget passes, the iZone would grow to 23 schools - all of which seek to significantly increase student scores through intense interventions such as extending the school day by one hour.
The annual cost to have both schools in the iZone is $1.4 million, which is higher than the usual $600,000-per-school price tag. That’s because of Raleigh-Egypt’s expanded grades and Sheffield’s higher-than-average population of English learners, said Chief of Schools Sharon Griffin.
“We’re in a unique position this year because of the additional funds,” Griffin said of the district’s balanced budget. “And we want to make sure we’re supporting schools, not just when they get totally critical like what has been the history of iZone schools ready for takeover, but to put some supports in place to support them before they are extremely critical.”
The proposed expansion would be the iZone’s first in the Raleigh and Parkway Village communities of Memphis. Griffin said American Way Middle and Sheffield High are likely iZone candidates for the following year to complete Sheffield Elementary’s feeder pattern.
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Water Contamination Issues
Most of the contaminated sites are kitchen or concession stand sinks, the district said in a statement Friday. The Environmental Protection Agency says the safety limit should be 15 parts per billion, or ppb. Seven MSCS schools have water sources containing over 10 times the safe amount of lead. A cafeteria sink at Invictus Academy, for example, tested with a lead level of 765 ppb.
In 2019, the first year of Tennessee school testing, 10 MSCS schools had contaminated water sources.
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