Memphis High School Competitors

Welcome to our page! Williamson County Schools is a K-12 school district with approximately 41,000 students. There are 52 school sites: 11 high schools, 11 middle schools, 29 elementary schools, and one K- 8 school.

Since its establishment over 130 years ago, Lipscomb Academy has provided a rigorous but joyful learning environment for Nashville students in the intermediate and primary grades. From its very beginnings, Lipscomb Academy benefitted from the college-level professors, equipment and resources available right on its campus. The entire school was founded “to teach the Christian religion as presented in the Bible” and “to prepare Christians for usefulness, in whatever sphere they are called upon to labor.” Today, that mission means Lipscomb Academy provides all the opportunity of a university, with the feel of a family. Our mission is greater than shaping only the minds of your children; We guide children to discover their gifts and passions to develop as a whole person and to become an adult who can positively influence the Nashville and greater global community.

Briarcrest makes extensive use of technology and has one of the most robust technology infrastructures in the Memphis school community. We have over 800 computing devices available for student use in connection with instructional activities. These include a wide variety of devices ranging from powerful desktops, touch-screens, laptops and iPads. These are available in a variety of venues that optimize instructional benefit, including computer labs, stations in the libraries and classroom, and carts that teachers bring into the classrooms when needed. To prepare our high school students in college math, our Pre-Calculus program uses an innovative blended program that blends an online college-level program with in-class traditional instruction. Additionally, our Geometry students have teacher-made podcasts available for the review of difficult concepts. Our fine arts department has put all of their sheet music on student iPads. These are great examples of how our focus is always on the best functionality for instruction, not just using technology for technology's sake. Briarcrest is a college preparatory school. While many college students use a computing device in the course of a day's academic pursuits, most college professors do not care whether or not students use one in the classroom. The same is true at Briarcrest. If a student works best in class on a computing device, that's fine. If a student prefers taking notes with pen a paper, that's fine too. Technology is simply one tool for learning. The tool is not important. The best vehicle for each individual student's learning is what matters. High school and, to a more controlled degree, Middle school students may bring their own laptops or other approved devices to school to use. Based on our observations, the percentage of students who do so is similar to the percentage of students who do so in college classrooms. That is what one would expect in a college prep school. At Briarcrest, the best curriculum drives the instructional decisions, not simply what ...