Firefly Varsity

Melrose High School

Division I, Class 3A, Region 8 · Shelby County · 639 students in grades 9-12

6-3Overall 2026-27
5-1Region
300-125Points for and against
+4.0Firefly rating, 128th of 354

Schedule and results

DateOpponentSiteResult
Fri, Aug 21Memphis Central High SchoolAwayL 0-42
Fri, Aug 28Kirby High SchoolHomeW 30-19
Fri, Sep 4Bartlett High SchoolHomeL 12-28
Fri, Sep 11Bolton High SchoolRegionHomeL 12-24
Fri, Sep 18Wooddale High SchoolRegionHomeW 44-0
Thu, Sep 24Hamilton High SchoolRegionAwayW 42-0
Fri, Oct 2Frederick Douglass High SchoolRegionHomeW 56-0
Fri, Oct 23Raleigh Egypt High SchoolRegionAwayW 50-12
Thu, Oct 29Memphis East High SchoolRegionAwayW 54-0

Division I, Class 3A, Region 8

TeamRegionOverallPFPA
Bolton6-08-2197124
Melrose5-16-3300125
Raleigh Egypt4-25-5166193
Wooddale3-35-5159219
Frederick Douglass2-42-8122332
Hamilton1-51-864271
Memphis East0-60-100459

The school behind the team

DState letter grade
Memphis-Shelby County SchoolsDistrict
Shelby CountyCounty

This school was matched to its state record by name rather than by an exact identifier, because the TSSAA and the Department of Education spell some school names differently. If this is the wrong school, tell us and we will fix it.

How the Firefly rating is calculated

A team's rating is its average scoring margin adjusted for the quality of the opponents it has played, solved across every completed TSSAA game this season. Zero is an average Tennessee team. Melrose High School has played 9 games against a schedule rating -4.5, and an average raw margin of +19.4 points.

Margin is capped at 28 points, so running up a score buys nothing, home advantage is removed before the fit, and every rating is shrunk toward average by 4 imaginary tied games so a team that has played nobody outside its own corner of the state cannot drift. Out-of-state opponents are excluded because they carry no rating in this pool. Early in a season, every rating is thin: with three or four games played, the schedule adjustment is doing more work than the results.