Memphis City Schools is the school district

School district

School districts are a form of special-purpose district which serves to operate the local public primary and secondary schools.-United States:...

 operating public schools in the city of Memphis

Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers....

, Tennessee

Tennessee

Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. It has a population of 6,346,105, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population, and covers , making it the 36th-largest by total land area...

. Its headquarters are in the Francis E. Coe Administration Building. On March 8, 2011, residents voted to disband the city school district, effectively merging it with the Shelby County School District

Shelby County Schools (Tennessee)

The Shelby County School District is a public school district headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee. It serves Shelby County, Tennessee, except for the city of Memphis...

.

Total enrollment, as of the 2010-2011 school year, is about 103,000 students, making the district the largest in Tennessee.

MCS serves the entire city of Memphis.