NCES CCD 2024-25 17 schools TN

Best-Resourced Schools in Gallatin, TN

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

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17
Schools
11,659
Students
40.2/100
Avg Resource Index
17.7:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Gallatin has more public-school enrollment than 84% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Gallatin 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 Gallatin's 17 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 40-point gap between Station Camp Middle School and Liberty Creek Middle School shows the range hidden by Gallatin'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 16%
School count
Top 19%
Resource Index average
46th percentile
Teacher staffing
28th percentile

Gallatin school enrollment varies 34× across entities

Gallatin school enrollment ranges from 48 students (lowest) to 1,644 students (highest), a spread of 1,596 students. That ratio is among the widest observed and reflects extreme heterogeneity inside a single city, with small specialty programs listed alongside large comprehensive campuses. 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

Gallatin operates one school district — a single-district system

Gallatin'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

Gallatin student-teacher ratio is 17.7:1 — 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 Gallatin is typically wider than the Gallatin-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Station Camp Middle School 53
2. Station Camp High School 52
3. Joe Shafer Middle School 51
4. Sumner County Middle College High School 49
5. Union Elementary School 47
6. R T Fisher Alternative 47
7. Howard Elementary 46
8. Rucker Stewart Middle 46
9. Station Camp Elementary 45
10. Guild Elementary 44
11. E B Wilson 43
12. Benny C. Bills Elementary School 41
13. Vena Stuart Elementary 39
14. Gallatin Senior High School 32
15. Liberty Creek Elementary 18
16. Liberty Creek High School 17
17. Liberty Creek Middle School 13

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Gallatin

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 Guild Elementary 70.5/100
  2. 2 Rucker Stewart Middle 70.2/100
  3. 3 Vena Stuart Elementary 69.6/100
  4. 4 Benny C. Bills Elementary School 68.5/100
  5. 5 Gallatin Senior High School 66.0/100

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Which Gallatin school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Station Camp Middle School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Gallatin schools in this federal-data comparison at 53/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Gallatin, TN? ▼

Gallatin has 17 public schools with a total enrollment of 11,659 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 17.7:1.

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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.