Vine Middle Magnet, 1807 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave.: grades 6-8, 382 students in 2024-25, state grade D. Office: 865-594-4461.

Last checked Oct. 18, 2026. Sources: vinems.knoxschools.org, Knox County Schools, the Tennessee Department of Education’s State Report Card and data files and the NCES school directory.

Vine Middle Magnet School is a Knox County Schools middle school for grades 6 to 8 at 1807 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. in Knoxville. The school is inside Knoxville city limits.

Vine Middle Magnet has served students since 1951. It is a candidate school for the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme, according to the school.

Who to call
Address 1807 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave., Knoxville, TN 37915
Phone 865-594-4461
Grades 6 to 8
School day 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
District Knox County Schools
School board district and KCS region District 1, Region 5
Students, 2024-25 (state count) 382
State letter grade, 2024-25 D

Principal

Principal Robin Curry, according to the school’s About Us page.

Enrollment and teachers

  • State count: 382 students in the 2024-25 school year, in the Tennessee Department of Education’s school profile file.
  • Federal count: 393 students in the 2023-24 school year, with 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, according to the NCES directory. That works out to about 12 students per teacher.

State report card

Tennessee gives most public schools an A-F letter grade. The Department of Education says the grades are meant “to provide a snapshot of how each school performed during the previous academic year,” according to its school letter grades page. The grade combines indicators scored from 1 to 5: student achievement, academic growth, growth of the highest-need students and, for high schools, college and career readiness.

Vine Middle Magnet earned a D for 2024-25, the latest grades published, with an overall score of 2.1 out of 5 in the state’s letter grade file.

Indicator Score (1 to 5)
Achievement 1
Growth 3
Growth of highest-need students 4
Overall success rate, all students, 2024-25 tests 11.2%

The state’s 2025 accountability designation for the school is Priority & Comprehensive Support and Improvement, according to its State Report Card page.

Spring 2026 TCAP tests (share of students who met or exceeded expectations, all grades, from the state’s 2026 school assessment file):

Subject Met or exceeded Valid tests
English language arts 9.1% 307
Math 8.5% 295
Science 22.5% 306
Social studies 22.8% 303
Algebra I 72.7% 11

The full report, with chronic absence and results by student group, is on the State Report Card page for Vine Middle Magnet.

Attendance zone and feeder schools

Check any address with the KGIS school zone search, the lookup Knox County Schools sends families to. Zones do not follow city limits. About 95% of the zone’s area lies inside Knoxville city limits, according to our comparison of the district zone map and city limits published on KGIS; the rest is unincorporated Knox County.

From the district’s feeder pattern list, students come to Vine Middle Magnet from Beaumont Magnet Academy, Belle Morris Elementary, Christenberry Elementary, Green Magnet Academy, Sarah Moore Greene Magnet Academy, Sequoyah Elementary and Spring Hill Elementary, some of them only in part, and go on to Austin-East Magnet High and Fulton High.

Families who want a school outside their zone apply for a transfer. The priority window for the 2027-28 school year opened Oct. 1, 2026, and closes at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2027; a final window runs April 1 to June 1, 2027. Seats depend on space, are assigned by lottery-style numbers within priority groups, and transfer students get no bus service, according to the district’s transfer page.

Calendar and bell times

From the Knox County Schools 2026-27 calendar:

  • Tuesday, Nov. 3: in-service day, no school for students
  • Wednesday, Nov. 18: half day for students
  • Nov. 25-27: Thanksgiving holidays, schools closed
  • Friday, Dec. 18: half day; end of the first semester
  • Dec. 21 to Jan. 1: winter break; students return Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2027
  • March 8-12, 2027: spring break
  • Wednesday, May 26, 2027: last day for students (half day)

The school day runs 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., and half days 8:30 a.m. to noon, according to the district’s school schedules page.

Programs

Vine is one of the district’s magnet schools, listed on the magnet transportation page as Vine Magnet Performing Arts and Sciences Middle School. Students outside the zone apply through the transfer process, in which magnet requests get priority.

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Frequently asked questions

What grades does Vine Middle Magnet School serve?

Vine Middle Magnet serves grades 6 to 8. It is a Knox County Schools campus at 1807 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave., Knoxville; the main office number is 865-594-4461.

What is Vine Middle Magnet’s state letter grade?

Vine Middle Magnet earned a D in Tennessee’s 2024-25 school letter grades, with an overall score of 2.1 out of 5, according to the Tennessee Department of Education.

Which high school does Vine Middle Magnet feed into?

Vine Middle Magnet feeds Austin-East Magnet High and Fulton High, depending on the address, according to the Knox County Schools feeder pattern list.

What time does Vine Middle Magnet start?

The school day runs 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., according to the Knox County Schools school schedules page.