NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools TN

Best-Resourced Schools in Madisonville, TN

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5 public K-12 schools in Madisonville 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
2,473
Students
22.6/100
Avg Resource Index
20.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Madisonville has more public-school enrollment than 20% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Madisonville's 5 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

2 of Madisonville'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 35-point gap between Madisonville Primary and Monroe County Virtual School shows the range hidden by Madisonville'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 80%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
2nd percentile
Teacher staffing
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Sequoyah High School accounts for 31.0% of all Madisonville public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Madisonville-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

Madisonville school enrollment varies 2.8× across entities

Madisonville school enrollment ranges from 273 students (lowest) to 766 students (highest), a spread of 493 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

Madisonville operates one school district — a single-district system

Madisonville'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

Madisonville student-teacher ratio is 20.3:1 — high (typically associated with larger urban scale or staffing constraints that have widened the headcount gap)

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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Madisonville Primary 35
2. Sequoyah High School 33
3. Madisonville Intermediate School 25
4. Madisonville Middle School 20
5. Monroe County Virtual School -

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Madisonville

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 Sequoyah High School 31.2/100
  2. 2 Monroe County Virtual School 20.4/100
  3. 3 Madisonville Intermediate School 18.8/100
  4. 4 Madisonville Middle School 18.1/100
  5. 5 Madisonville Primary 17.2/100

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Which Madisonville school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Madisonville Primary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Madisonville schools in this federal-data comparison at 35/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Madisonville, TN? ▼

Madisonville has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,473 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 20.3:1.

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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.