NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools TN

Best-Resourced Schools in Harriman, TN

Compiled from official source data by PlainSchools. · Updated August 2026

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

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Schools

1,559

Students

41.8/100

Avg Resource Index

12.5:1

Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Harriman has more public-school enrollment than 6% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Harriman'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 Harriman'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.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Harriman lists only 6 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 46 to 524 students, a 11-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 94%
School count: Top 79%
Resource Index average: 54th percentile
Teacher staffing: 84th percentile

Bowers Elementary accounts for 33.6% of all Harriman public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Harriman-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Combined. 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 Accessed 2026-08-26

Harriman school enrollment varies 11× across entities

Harriman school enrollment ranges from 46 students (lowest) to 524 students (highest), a spread of 478 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. 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 Accessed 2026-08-26

Harriman operates one school district — a single-district system

Harriman'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 Accessed 2026-08-26

Harriman student-teacher ratio is 12.5:1 — 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 Accessed 2026-08-26

#	School	Score	Enrollment	Level	District
1.	Roane County Virtual Academy	63	78	Combined	Roane County
2.	Midtown Elementary	53	273	Combined	Roane County
3.	Harriman Middle School	43	284	middle	Roane County
4.	Bowers Elementary	37	524	Combined	Roane County
5.	Midtown Educational Center	31	46	Combined	Roane County
6.	Harriman High School	24	354	high	Roane County

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Harriman

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.

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Which Harriman school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Roane County Virtual Academy has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Harriman schools in this federal-data comparison at 63/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Harriman, TN? ▼

Harriman has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 1,559 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.5:1.

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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.