NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools TN

Best-Resourced Schools in Centerville, TN

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

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5
Schools
1,510
Students
50/100
Avg Resource Index
12.5:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Centerville has more public-school enrollment than 6% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Centerville's 5 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

2 of Centerville's 5 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

Centerville lists only 5 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 19 to 410 students, a 22-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 94%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
87th percentile
Teacher staffing
84th percentile

Hickman Co Sr High School accounts for 27.2% of all Centerville public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Centerville-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

Centerville school enrollment varies 22× across entities

Centerville school enrollment ranges from 19 students (lowest) to 410 students (highest), a spread of 391 students. That spread is wider than typical and predicts noticeable gaps in service quality between the highest and lowest areas. 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

Centerville operates one school district — a single-district system

Centerville'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

Centerville student-teacher ratio is 12.5:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Hickman County Learning Academy 67
2. Hickman Co Middle School 51
3. Hickman Co Sr High School 50
4. Centerville Intermediate School 43
5. Centerville Elementary 39

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Centerville

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 Hickman County Learning Academy 36.1/100
  2. 2 Hickman Co Sr High School 19.9/100
  3. 3 Hickman Co Middle School 17.2/100
  4. 4 Centerville Elementary 16.8/100
  5. 5 Centerville Intermediate School 13.5/100

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Which Centerville school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Hickman County Learning Academy has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Centerville schools in this federal-data comparison at 67/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Centerville, TN? ▼

Centerville has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 1,510 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.5:1.

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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.