Optional Schools: Pursue the Possibilities

There are 13 schools that exist as Optional only, and all students who attend these schools participate in the Optional Program. The 13 schools are:

• Balmoral Ridgeway Elementary and Oak Forest Elementary: International Baccalaureate (IB) World School Primary Years Programme
• John P. Freeman: Enriched Academics/College Preparatory
• Cummings School: Enriched Academics
• Delano Elementary: Information Technology
• Double Tree Elementary: Community Service and Leadership Prep
• Douglass School (K-5): Public Service and Communication Arts
• East High: T-STEM/Diesel Technology
• Idlewild Elementary: Science/Technology
• Rozelle Elementary: Creative and Performing Arts
• Springdale-Memphis Magnet Elementary: Exploratory Learning
• Maxine Smith STEAM Academy: Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics
• Vollentine Elementary: Science Exploration

There is a school-within-a-school Optional Program at 14 elementary schools. The schools are:

• Brownsville Road Elementary
• William H. Brewster Elementary
• Cordova Elementary
• Germantown Elementary
• Downtown Elementary
• Grahamwood Elementary
• Keystone Elementary
• Peabody Elementary
• Riverwood Elementary
• Sherwood Elementary
• Snowden School
• Treadwell Elementary
• Whitehaven Elementary
• Willow Oaks Elementary

Twelve middle schools offer a variety of Optional Programs from which students can choose. They are:

• Bellevue Middle, John P. Freeman, Germantown Middle, Snowden School, and White Station Middle: College Preparatory
• Colonial Middle: Arts and Academics
• Cordova Middle: Enriched Academics
• Craigmont Middle: Enriched Academics/International Studies
• Douglass School (6-8): Public Service and Communication Arts
• Havenview Middle and Maxine Smith STEAM Academy: Science, Technology, Arts and Mathematics (S.T.E.A.M.)
• Ridgeway Middle: International Baccalaureate World School Middle Years Programme

At the senior high level, students can choose among 11 schools. They are:

• Central High: College Preparatory
• Craigmont High: College Preparatory/International Studies
• Douglass High: Public Service and Communication Arts
• East High: College Preparatory/T-STEM/Diesel Technology
• Germantown High: International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme/Creative and Performing Arts
• Kingsbury High: Global Health Studies
• Overton High: Creative and Performing Arts
• Ridgeway High: International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
• White Station High: College Preparatory
• Whitehaven High: College Preparatory/Business and Finance
• Wooddale High: College Preparatory/Information Technology