NCES CCD 2024-25 10 schools TN

Best-Resourced Schools in Bristol, TN

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

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10
Schools
4,347
Students
44.8/100
Avg Resource Index
14.8:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Bristol has more public-school enrollment than 49% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Bristol sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

7 of Bristol's 10 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

Bristol lists only 10 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 15 to 1,146 students, a 76-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 51%
School count
Top 41%
Resource Index average
69th percentile
Teacher staffing
57th percentile

Tennessee High School accounts for 26.4% of all Bristol public-school enrollment

That concentration means Bristol-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

Bristol school enrollment varies 76× across entities

Bristol school enrollment ranges from 15 students (lowest) to 1,146 students (highest), a spread of 1,131 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. 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

Bristol student-teacher ratio is 14.8:1 — 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 Bristol is typically wider than the Bristol-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Emmett Elementary 50
2. Tennessee Online Public School at Bristol 50
3. Tennessee High School 49
4. Bristol Tennessee Middle School 47
5. Holston View Elementary 47
6. Anderson Elementary 45
7. Fairmount Elementary 44
8. Haynesfield Elementary 40
9. Tennessee Online Public School 39
10. Avoca Elementary 37

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Bristol

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 Anderson Elementary 36.1/100
  2. 2 Haynesfield Elementary 31.4/100
  3. 3 Fairmount Elementary 30.6/100
  4. 4 Bristol Tennessee Middle School 28.0/100
  5. 5 Tennessee High School 25.4/100

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Which Bristol school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Emmett Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Bristol schools in this federal-data comparison at 50/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Bristol, TN? ▼

Bristol has 10 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,347 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.8:1.

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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.