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Memphis Virtual Adult High Schoolmemphisvirtualadulths.org
Memphis Virtual Adult High School
Where VIRTUALLY Anything is Possible — a real accredited high school diploma for adults 18+, not a GED.
Memphis Virtual Adult High School gives adults a second chance at the credential that opens every door: an official, accredited high school diploma from Memphis-Shelby County Schools — not a GED. The program is fully web-based, self-paced, and built for grown folks balancing jobs and families, with synchronous and asynchronous instruction plus in-person support when you need it. In just four years MVAHS has helped nearly 700 adults earn their diplomas — including its largest class ever, 151 graduates, in December 2025. Eligibility: Tennessee resident, 18+, computer with internet. Call (901) 416-0115.
What MVAHS Does
A Real Accredited Diploma
An official high school diploma from Memphis-Shelby County Schools — recognized by employers, apprenticeships, colleges and the military. Not a GED.
Fully Virtual & Self-Paced
Web-based coursework you complete anytime, anywhere, at your own speed — designed around work schedules and family life.
In-Person Support When You Need It
Real counselors, advisors, a life coach and intervention support — a full staff committed to getting every learner across the finish line.
Second Chances That Stick
Graduates include parents who finished alongside their own kids — one mother and daughter even graduated together. It is never too late.
Free to Enroll
Tennessee residents 18+ with a computer and internet connection qualify — community donations through SchoolSeed remove the remaining barriers.
Leadership
Dr. Samuel Bachelor
Founding Principal · Memphis Virtual Adult High School
A proud LeMoyne-Owen College graduate with a master's from Union University and both an Education Specialist and Doctoral degree from Freed-Hardeman University, Dr. Bachelor has spent 18+ years transforming lives across traditional, turnaround, alternative, virtual, and adult education. As MVAHS's founding principal he has helped more than 700 adult learners earn their diplomas in four years — many while working and raising families. He is a published expert in Social Emotional Learning and serves Memphis alongside his wife, the Honorable Judge Taylor Bachelor of General Sessions Criminal Court Division 7. And this partnership is personal: Dr. Bachelor comes from a proud union family of former union members, and President Kevin Bradshaw has known him — and his family — since Sam's college days. Labor built the values; Dr. Bachelor built them into a school.
Nearly 700 Diplomas in Four Years
MVAHS opened its virtual doors with a simple promise — that the adults Memphis wrote off as dropouts were really graduates waiting for a school that fit their lives. Four years later the receipts are in: nearly 700 diplomas conferred, a December 2025 class of 151 (the largest yet), and testimonial after testimonial from Memphians who rebuilt their confidence, their careers, and their families' futures. 'The staff believed in me when I had stopped believing in myself,' says one graduate. That's not marketing — that's Memphis magic.
A Community Partner of Labor Education
Here's why this partnership matters to labor: every union apprenticeship in the building trades requires a high school diploma or GED — it's step one on the application. For too many Memphians, that missing credential is the wall between them and a union career. MVAHS tears that wall down for free, and hands them something better than a GED. For our District 10 Labor Education & Trades Pathways participants who haven't finished school, the pathway is now complete: earn your diploma at MVAHS, then walk straight into our pre-apprenticeship program. Enroll: memphisvirtualadulths.org · (901) 416-0115 · 1775 Ridgeway Rd, Memphis 38119.
Connect with Memphis Virtual Adult High School
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