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Public Schools in Tennessee

1,844 schools · 148 districts · 1,005,626 students

50%
Average
Avg Proficiency
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Largest Schools in Tennessee

School data sourced from NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) via the Common Core of Data.

Bartlett High School

Bartlett

2,851 students

Collierville High School

Collierville

2,836 students

Dobyns - Bennett High School

Kingsport

2,514 students

Science Hill High School

Johnson City

2,401 students

Stewarts Creek High School

Smyrna

2,391 students

Rockvale High School

Rockvale

2,292 students

Smyrna High School

Smyrna

2,200 students

Cookeville High School

Cookeville

2,199 students

Blackman High School

Murfreesboro

2,194 students

Tennessee Virtual Academy

Knoxville

2,168 students

Frequently Asked Questions

Tennessee has 1,844 public schools across 148 districts, serving 1,005,626 students.

The largest school in Tennessee is Bartlett High School with 2,851 students. Tennessee has 1,844 public schools overall.

The average proficiency rate is 50%. Proficiency rates measure the percentage of students meeting state standards on standardized assessments, as reported by EDFacts.

All school data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data for enrollment and school characteristics, and EDFacts for proficiency rates and graduation rates.

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School data is sourced from NCES enrollment records and EDFacts proficiency and graduation rate assessments. No synthetic scores are used.

this entity is one of the data points covered by this site’s U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment dataset. The detail above comes directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the context that follows situates the headline numbers against the broader distribution across U.S. public schools and districts.

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.

For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.