Hamilton County
Soddy Daisy, TN · 81 schools · 45,902 students
Largest Schools
Schools ranked by enrollment. Proficiency data from EDFacts where available.
Frequently Asked Questions
Hamilton County has 81 schools serving 45,902 students. The average proficiency rate across the district is 50%. The average graduation rate is 75%.
Hamilton County operates 81 public schools, including The Howard School, Signal Mountain Middle/High School, Ooltewah High School, East Hamilton High School, East Brainerd Elementary and others. The full school list is shown above with enrollment and grade-level details.
The average graduation rate across high schools in Hamilton County is approximately 75% (EDFacts district-level data, most recent reporting year). Individual school graduation rates may vary; this is a district-wide adjusted-cohort graduation rate.
The largest school in Hamilton County is The Howard School with 1,485 students.
Hamilton County serves 45,902 students across 81 schools in TN, per the latest NCES Common Core of Data enrollment.
Hamilton County's average proficiency rate of 50% (math and reading combined, EDFacts) is around average for US public school districts. "Good" depends on what you value — proficiency is one signal; enrollment trends, class size, graduation rates, and district resources also matter. Check individual school pages for granular data.
Student-teacher ratios are reported at the school level by NCES, not aggregated at the district level in our dataset. Open any individual school page in Hamilton County to see its specific student-teacher ratio. The US national average is approximately 16:1 for public schools.
All data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data (enrollment, school count, demographics) and EDFacts assessment results (proficiency rates, graduation rates). Proficiency and graduation rates are reported at the district level. Both are federal sources used by the US Department of Education.
School performance data is sourced from NCES enrollment records and EDFacts proficiency and graduation rate assessments.
For this entity, the underlying data on this page comes from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. The breakdown above is the federal record; the paragraphs below add the per-entity context that makes the headline numbers usable for a real decision rather than just a data lookup.
The methodology behind every numeric value on this page is publicly documented on the NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts portal and described in detail on this site’s methodology page. Refresh cadence varies by underlying series; the page surfaces the as-of date for each number so readers can trace any figure back to the source release.
Practical use of this page is in combination with the comparison and ranking pages elsewhere on the site, which surface the same data for this entity’s peers within U.S. public schools and districts. A single-entity reading without peer context can be misleading when an entity is an outlier on one axis but typical on another.