NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools TN

Best-Resourced Schools in Church Hill, TN

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5 public K-12 schools in Church Hill 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
2,678
Students
36.4/100
Avg Resource Index
15.9:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Church Hill has more public-school enrollment than 24% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Volunteer High School enrolls 35.6% of Church Hill'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

2 of Church Hill'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.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 16-point gap between Church Hill Elementary and Church Hill Middle School shows the range hidden by Church Hill's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 76%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
30th percentile
Teacher staffing
44th percentile

Volunteer High School accounts for 35.6% of all Church Hill public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Church Hill-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

Church Hill school enrollment varies 3.1× across entities

Church Hill school enrollment ranges from 303 students (lowest) to 953 students (highest), a spread of 650 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. 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

Church Hill operates one school district — a single-district system

Church Hill'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

Church Hill student-teacher ratio is 15.9:1 — 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 Church Hill is typically wider than the Church Hill-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Church Hill Elementary 42
2. Carter's Valley Elementary 41
3. Church Hill Intermediate School 39
4. Volunteer High School 34
5. Church Hill Middle School 26

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Which Church Hill school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Church Hill Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Church Hill schools in this federal-data comparison at 42/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Church Hill, TN? ▼

Church Hill has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,678 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 15.9:1.

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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.