Largest Schools in Tennessee
Tennessee has 1,844 public schools across 148 districts with a total enrollment of 1,005,626 students. The largest school is Bartlett High School in Bartlett.
Largest Schools in Tennessee
| # | School | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bartlett High School | Bartlett | 2,851 |
| 2 | Collierville High School | Collierville | 2,836 |
| 3 | Dobyns - Bennett High School | Kingsport | 2,514 |
| 4 | Science Hill High School | Johnson City | 2,401 |
| 5 | Stewarts Creek High School | Smyrna | 2,391 |
| 6 | Rockvale High School | Rockvale | 2,292 |
| 7 | Smyrna High School | Smyrna | 2,200 |
| 8 | Cookeville High School | Cookeville | 2,199 |
| 9 | Blackman High School | Murfreesboro | 2,194 |
| 10 | Tennessee Virtual Academy | Knoxville | 2,168 |
Largest Districts in Tennessee
| # | District | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Memphis-Shelby County Schools | 109,797 |
| 2 | Davidson County | 80,651 |
| 3 | Knox County | 60,609 |
| 4 | Rutherford County | 50,707 |
| 5 | Hamilton County | 45,902 |
| 6 | Williamson County | 42,171 |
| 7 | Montgomery County | 38,773 |
| 8 | Sumner County | 30,732 |
| 9 | Wilson County | 20,308 |
| 10 | Sevier County | 14,455 |
School data for Tennessee is sourced from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results.
Frequently Asked Questions
The largest public school in Tennessee by enrollment is Bartlett High School in Bartlett with 2,851 students.
Tennessee has 1,844 public schools across 148 school districts, with a total enrollment of 1,005,626 students.
All school data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. This includes enrollment, student-teacher ratios, proficiency rates, and graduation rates.
School data includes enrollment, student-teacher ratios, proficiency rates, and graduation rates from NCES and EDFacts.
The this entity category groups every U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment entity sharing this attribute. The list above is the data; the paragraphs below explain what the grouping means against the broader NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts distribution and how to read the relative rankings within the category.
For readers using this category as a starting point, the per-entity detail pages linked from the table above carry the underlying NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts data in full. The category-level view is the filter; the per-entity pages are the actual answer.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.