NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools TN

Best-Resourced Schools in Charlotte, TN

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5 public K-12 schools in Charlotte 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
2,054
Students
43/100
Avg Resource Index
10.9:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Charlotte has more public-school enrollment than 13% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Creek Wood High School enrolls 44.7% of Charlotte's public-school students. That is enough concentration for one institution to pull the citywide enrollment, staffing, and Resource Index averages toward its own profile. The smaller campuses below should therefore be compared directly rather than inferred from the headline mean; their grade configurations and program footprints can be materially different even inside the same district.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

3 of Charlotte'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

Charlotte lists only 5 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 40 to 919 students, a 23-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 87%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
60th percentile
Teacher staffing
95th percentile

Creek Wood High School accounts for 44.7% of all Charlotte public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Charlotte-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

Charlotte school enrollment varies 23× across entities

Charlotte school enrollment ranges from 40 students (lowest) to 919 students (highest), a spread of 879 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

Charlotte operates one school district — a single-district system

Charlotte'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

Charlotte student-teacher ratio is 10.9:1 — 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. Dickson County Distance Learning Academy 62
2. New Directions Academy 44
3. Charlotte Elementary 40
4. Creek Wood High School 36
5. Charlotte Middle School 33

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Charlotte

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 New Directions Academy 50.3/100
  2. 2 Dickson County Distance Learning Academy 37.1/100
  3. 3 Charlotte Middle School 26.4/100
  4. 4 Charlotte Elementary 24.6/100
  5. 5 Creek Wood High School 24.5/100

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Which Charlotte school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Dickson County Distance Learning Academy has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Charlotte schools in this federal-data comparison at 62/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Charlotte, TN? ▼

Charlotte has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,054 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 10.9:1.

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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.