NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools TN

Best-Resourced Schools in Covington, TN

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6 public K-12 schools in Covington 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
2,900
Students
39.2/100
Avg Resource Index
12.8:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Covington has more public-school enrollment than 27% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Covington'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

4 of Covington'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.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Covington's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 42nd percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 81st percentile. The 39-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.

City enrollment
Top 73%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
42nd percentile
Teacher staffing
81st percentile

Covington High School accounts for 22.2% of all Covington public-school enrollment

That concentration means Covington-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

Covington school enrollment varies 7.6× across entities

Covington school enrollment ranges from 85 students (lowest) to 643 students (highest), a spread of 558 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

Covington operates one school district — a single-district system

Covington'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

Covington student-teacher ratio is 12.8:1 — 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. Tipton County Alternative Learning Center 62
2. Austin Peay Elementary School 52
3. Charger Academy 32
4. Crestview Elementary 31
5. Crestview Middle School 30
6. Covington High School 28

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Covington

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 Crestview Elementary 56.2/100
  2. 2 Covington High School 55.7/100
  3. 3 Crestview Middle School 54.9/100
  4. 4 Tipton County Alternative Learning Center 53.9/100
  5. 5 Austin Peay Elementary School 45.1/100

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Which Covington school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Tipton County Alternative Learning Center has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Covington 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 Covington, TN? ▼

Covington has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,900 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.8:1.

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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.