Bishop Byrne High School was a

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. It was located in the

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Background

Bishop Byrne was established in 1965 to serve students in the South Memphis area. It was named for Bishop

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, Bishop of the Nashville Diocese in the early 20th century. 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

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, which it was to merge into. That year each school had an enrollment of fewer than 200 students. 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.

Athletics

Bishop Byrne competed in Division 2, Region A of the

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(TSSAA) along with: *

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(Nashville) *

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(Cordova) *Kings Academy (Seymour) *Lighthouse Christian (Millington) *

(Memphis, Tennessee) *

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(Millington) *Rossville Christian *

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) * St. Andrews (Sewanee) * St. George's (Collierville)

Notes and references

External links

* * - Roman Catholic Diocese of Memphis
Bishop Byrne High School Alumni Association
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