History of MCHS

This excerpt is from the MCHS website: 

Soon after Millington was founded in the 1870′s, a reading school was established in a wood frame structure on this site by the Shelby County Board of Education. The building was surrounded by woods. Soon, enrollment grew until a second room was added, also a second teacher. These two rooms were later enlarged with four downstairs, and a concert hall upstairs. In the 1890′s the school was organized into grades. A 1907 brick structure was razed in 1916 and a brick and terra cotta “Beaux-Arts” style edifice was erected on the site and stood until 2005. The school had eleven grades. The twelfth grade class was authorized in 1910 and by 1911 two students received high school diplomas.

Some other firsts for MCHS were …

• The first brick school was built in 1907.
• It was the first school in Shelby County to have a gymnasium. The gymnasium was built in 1922 with funds raised by the citizens of Millington.
• It was the first school in this area to have a transportation system and hot lunches.
• The first 16mm projector in Shelby County Schools was used at Millington Central High School.
• In 1947, MCHS had the first lighted football game in the county.
• MCHS was admitted to membership in the Southern Association of colleges and secondary schools. It was the first school in Memphis or Shelby County to be accredited and the ninth school in the state of Tennessee to achieve this distinction.
• MCHS was the first high school in Shelby to have a computer with internet access in every classroom.

The New Millington Central Middle High School building provides modern, code-compliant facilities which will include: sixty teaching stations, special classrooms for newspaper and yearbook, art, choral music, a computer lab, the main office and guidance. Most of the Wilkinsville Road frontage will remain a pastoral setting.