All-girls Grizzlies prep school approved
Grizzlies Prep opened an all-boys charter middle school in 2012 at 168 Jefferson Ave. After starting with fewer than 100 sixth-grade boys, it now serves more than 300 students in grades six through eight. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
“We’ve seen good work from the single-gender schools, even though there’s not that many of them,” said Emily Lilley of the Tennessee Charter School Center.
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King Jemison is completing a journalism master’s program at Northwestern University. After graduating from Stanford University in 2021, he taught elementary school in Memphis for two years.
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