NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools TN

Best-Resourced Schools in Ashland City, TN

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6 public K-12 schools in Ashland City from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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6
Schools
1,896
Students
45.8/100
Avg Resource Index
16.6:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Ashland City has more public-school enrollment than 11% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Ashland City's 6 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

3 of Ashland City's 6 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Ashland City lists only 6 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 17 to 514 students, a 30-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment
Top 89%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
73rd percentile
Teacher staffing
37th percentile

Cheatham Co Central accounts for 27.1% of all Ashland City public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Ashland City-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Ashland City school enrollment varies 30× across entities

Ashland City school enrollment ranges from 17 students (lowest) to 514 students (highest), a spread of 497 students. That ratio is among the widest observed and reflects extreme heterogeneity inside a single city, with small specialty programs listed alongside large comprehensive campuses. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Ashland City operates one school district — a single-district system

Ashland City's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Ashland City student-teacher ratio is 16.6:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Ashland City is typically wider than the Ashland City-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Riverside Academy 70
2. Cheatham Middle School 56
3. East Cheatham Elementary 40
4. Cheatham County Virtual School 40
5. Cheatham Co Central 39
6. Ashland City Elementary 30

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Ashland City

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Cheatham Co Central 41.0/100
  2. 2 Ashland City Elementary 39.2/100
  3. 3 Cheatham Middle School 38.7/100
  4. 4 East Cheatham Elementary 29.0/100
  5. 5 Cheatham County Virtual School 23.7/100

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Which Ashland City school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Riverside Academy has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Ashland City schools in this federal-data comparison at 70/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Ashland City, TN? ▼

Ashland City has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 1,896 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 16.6:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.