NCES CCD 2024-25 11 schools TN

Best-Resourced Schools in Germantown, TN

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

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11
Schools
9,626
Students
45.5/100
Avg Resource Index
14.6:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Germantown has more public-school enrollment than 79% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Germantown 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 Germantown's 11 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 25-point gap between Farmington Elementary School and Houston High School shows the range hidden by Germantown'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 21%
School count
Top 35%
Resource Index average
72nd percentile
Teacher staffing
60th percentile

Houston High School accounts for 18.8% of all Germantown public-school enrollment

That concentration means Germantown-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

Germantown school enrollment varies 22× across entities

Germantown school enrollment ranges from 84 students (lowest) to 1,806 students (highest), a spread of 1,722 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

Germantown student-teacher ratio is 14.6:1 — 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 Germantown is typically wider than the Germantown-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Farmington Elementary School 55
2. Germantown Middle 53
3. Germantown Online Academy of Learning 53
4. Dogwood Elementary School 51
5. Riverdale Elementary School 50
6. Forest Hill Elementary School 46
7. Germantown High 45
8. Houston Middle School 43
9. Germanshire Elementary 38
10. Germantown Elementary 37
11. Houston High School 30

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Germantown

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 Germantown Online Academy of Learning 63.1/100
  2. 2 Houston High School 53.8/100
  3. 3 Farmington Elementary School 50.0/100
  4. 4 Riverdale Elementary School 48.7/100
  5. 5 Houston Middle School 45.0/100

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Which Germantown school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Farmington Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Germantown schools in this federal-data comparison at 55/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Germantown, TN? ▼

Germantown has 11 public schools with a total enrollment of 9,626 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.6:1.

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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.