Overton High School

Memphis, TN 38117

Phone: (901) 416-2136
Fax: (901) 416-2135
District: Shelby County Schools

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GreatSchools Rating

public • Grades 9,10,11,12 • 1417 students

Overton High School, a public school located in Memphis, TN, serves grades 9-12 in the Shelby County Schools.It has received a GreatSchools Rating of 3 out of 10, based on a variety of school quality measures.

Overton High School is a public school located in Memphis, TN. 1417 students attend Overton High School.

School Ratings

Category Rating Details
Test Scores 2/10 The Test Score Rating examines how students at this school performed on standardized tests compared with other schools in the state. The Test Rating was created using 2024 Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program (TCAP) data from Tennessee Department of Education, and using 2024 Gateway/End-of-Course (EOC) data from Tennessee Department of Education.
College Readiness 2/10 The College Readiness Rating uses this high school's graduation rates, college entrance exam participation and performance, or AP, IB, or Dual Enrollment participation to determine how well schools are preparing students for success in college and beyond. The College Readiness Rating was created using the following data from the 2021 Civil Rights Data Collection: percentage of students enrolled in IB, AP or Dual Enrollment classes in grades 9-12, using 2024 ACT participation data from Tennessee Department of Education, using 2024 4-year high school graduation rate data from Tennessee Department of Education, using 2024 Average ACT score data from Tennessee Department of Education, using 2024 ACT percent college ready data from Tennessee Department of Education, and using 2023 demographic data from the National Center for Education Statistics.
Student Growth 5/10 The Student Progress Rating measures whether students at this school are making academic progress over time based on student growth data provided by the Department of Education. Specifically, this rating looks at how much progress individual students have made on state assessments during the past year or more, how this performance aligns with expected progress based on a student growth model established by the state Department of Education, and how this school's growth data compares to other schools in the state. The Growth Rating was created using 2024 Student growth data from Tennessee Department of Education, and using 2024 Student Growth - ACT data from Tennessee Department of Education.

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Posted: September 3, 2013

This school needs some work. Throughout my sophomore year there have been many problems ranging from teachers to students. Some students really don't care and I'm in honors classes. Partially I feel some teachers don't care either. Some teach what would be taught in a special needs class. I don't feel challenged. As a WS Freshman I found myself challenged and coming from Colonial to WS I found myself not knowing the material from lacking math teachers and dedication to teaching left me struggling. Almost failing my first year, I resorted back to Overton but with a far exceeding knowledge of my previous year making the level of teaching seem easy and at a slow rate... but arts are good sadly bad reputation for everything else. The school has potential but needs order and is loosing it with every year!!!!

Posted: October 12, 2011

this school is amazing. great staff. great students and great history. the capa is mind-blowing. the students really want to exceed in life. and everyone should want to go to overton high school.

Posted: October 26, 2010

I graduated from Overton in 2008. Overton had its good and its bad moments. I was apart of the CAPA program and I loved it; however, outside of that, it didn't make it any different from any other public school. You had students who were trying to be like everybody else,students who were trying to better themselves, and ones who were just in the middle. Plus, the faculty wasn't that good;students ran right through them and the pep rallies were not thebest as well as some of there athletics. School spirit was to a minimum there,and I visited there recently and saw how so much has changed; I don't like how Overton is going.

Posted: April 21, 2010

This school has lost its good reputattion. It makes a mockery of the other performing arts schools that are actually serious about building artistic careers for their students. It should just drop the creavtive and performing arts from its name and just become a regular high school. The principal as well as a number of teachers should consider diffferent proffesions. I am a senior of the 2010 class and i approve this message.

Posted: April 15, 2008

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Reviews provided by GreatSchools™

# Name Type City State Overall Rating Distance
1 Harbor Town Neighborhood/Subdivision Memphis TN 10 mi
2 Oak Forest Neighborhood/Subdivision Memphis TN 10.3 mi
3 Daybreak Neighborhood/Subdivision Memphis TN 10.6 mi
4 Country Meadows Neighborhood/Subdivision Bartlett TN 11.5 mi
5 Rivercrest Neighborhood/Subdivision Memphis TN 12.9 mi
6 Oakwood Subdivision Neighborhood/Subdivision Lakeland TN 15 mi
7 Templeton Farms Neighborhood/Subdivision Atoka TN 23.8 mi
8 Blaydes Estates Neighborhood/Subdivision Atoka TN 24 mi
9 Glenview Estates Neighborhood/Subdivision Munford TN 26.4 mi
# Name City State Overall Rating Distance
1 Midtown Memphis Memphis TN 6.6 mi
2 Bartlett Bartlett TN 8.6 mi
3 Cordova Memphis TN 8.6 mi
4 Lakeland Lakeland TN 13.8 mi
5 Millington Millington TN 17.8 mi
6 Desoto County Hernando MS 18.6 mi
7 Arlington Arlington TN 18.9 mi
8 Atoka Atoka TN 25.8 mi
Base Distance
Tennessee National Guard Memphis 4 mi.
NSA Mid South 17.9 mi.
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