Bishop Byrne High School (Tennessee)

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Bishop Byrne High School
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Bishop Byrne High School (Tennessee)
1475 East Shelby Drive

Memphis
,
(Shelby County)
,
Tennessee
38116

United States
Coordinates 35°1′8″N90°0′55″W / 35.01889°N 90.01528°W / 35.01889; -90.01528
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Type Private, Coeducational, university-preparatory school
MottoFiat Lux Veritatis
(Let there be the light of truth.)
Religious affiliation(s) Roman Catholic
Established1965
StatusClosed
Closed2013
School code431-480
Grades 7–12
Color(s) Red, Black and White    
Athletics conferenceTSSAA
MascotRed Knight
Accreditation Southern Association of Colleges and Schools [1]
Website https://web.archive.org/*/http://www.bishopbyrne.org/

Bishop Byrne High School was a private, Roman Catholic high school in Memphis, Tennessee. It was located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Memphis.

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Background

Bishop Byrne was established in 1965 to serve students in the South Memphis area. It was named for Bishop Thomas Sebastian Byrne, Bishop of the Nashville Diocese in the early 20th century. [2] Bishop Byrne students came from a large area across Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas. The mascot for the school was the Red Knight. Bishop Byrne was also the alma mater of Archbishop J. Peter Sartain.

Closure

On January 24, 2013, Roman Catholic Bishop J. Terry Steib of the Diocese of Memphis announced that Bishop Byrne High would close at the end of the spring semester. The school had experienced declining enrollment in recent years and higher maintenance costs than Memphis Catholic High School, which it was to merge into. [3] That year each school had an enrollment of fewer than 200 students. [4]

Influence1, a private charter school foundation, purchased the former Bishop Byrne property from the Catholic Diocese of Memphis and planned to open three charter schools at the location. [5]

Athletics

Bishop Byrne competed in Division 2, Region A of the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association (TSSAA) along with:

Notes and references

  1. ↑ SACS-CASI. "SACS-Council on Accreditation and School Improvement". Archived from the original on April 29, 2009. Retrieved June 23, 2009.
  2. ↑ BBHS. "Bishop Byrne High School History". Archived from the original on February 6, 2007. Retrieved May 11, 2007.
  3. ↑ Dries, Bill (January 28, 2013). "Bishop Byrne Will Close, Merge With Memphis Catholic". Memphis Daily News. Archived from the original on December 3, 2013. Retrieved November 26, 2013.
  4. ↑ Dries, Bill (January 24, 2018). "Catholic Diocese Ending Jubilee Schools After 2018-2019 School Year". Memphis Daily News . Retrieved February 16, 2019.
  5. ↑ "3 charter schools to open in former Bishop Byrne". My Fox Memphis. June 22, 2013. Archived from the original on December 2, 2013. Retrieved November 26, 2013.

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