Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) publishes an official address lookup tool. Enter your home address and it returns your zoned elementary, middle, and high schools.
Zoned schools connect in a pathway (also called a feeder pattern): the elementary school feeds into a specific middle school, which feeds into a specific high school. Knowing the whole pathway matters, because the elementary zone you choose today usually sets your child's default middle and high school too.
Every public-school page in this guide lists that school's feeder pathway, so you can trace it forward. Browse all Nashville schools to look up yours.
A zoned, neighborhood school is guaranteed to have a seat for students who live in its zone. Once you've confirmed yours, register through MNPS — online or at an enrollment center. Start at the MNPS Register for School page.
You have options beyond your zoned school — most of them tuition-free:
Enter your home address into the official MNPS Zone Finder at zonefinder.mnps.org, or call the MNPS Family Information Center at 615-259-INFO (4636). Both return your zoned elementary, middle, and high schools based on where you live.
Yes. You can apply to MNPS optional and magnet schools through the annual lottery, or to a public charter school — both are tuition-free. You can also choose a private school (a state EFS scholarship may help with tuition) or homeschool.
It's the set of schools your child moves through as they grow: a zoned elementary feeds into a specific middle school, which feeds into a specific high school. Choosing an elementary zone usually sets the default middle and high school too.
Yes — a zoned, neighborhood MNPS school is guaranteed to have a seat for students who live in its attendance zone. Optional, magnet, and charter schools are not guaranteed; those are awarded by lottery.