NCES CCD 2024-25 15 schools TN

Best-Resourced Schools in Morristown, TN

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

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15
Schools
8,956
Students
40.5/100
Avg Resource Index
14.6:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Morristown has more public-school enrollment than 77% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Morristown 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

8 of Morristown's 15 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 Hamblen County Alternative School and West View Middle School shows the range hidden by Morristown'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 23%
School count
Top 23%
Resource Index average
48th percentile
Teacher staffing
60th percentile

Morristown East High accounts for 16.4% of all Morristown public-school enrollment

That concentration means Morristown-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

Morristown school enrollment varies 34× across entities

Morristown school enrollment ranges from 43 students (lowest) to 1,468 students (highest), a spread of 1,425 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

Morristown operates one school district — a single-district system

Morristown'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

Morristown 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 Morristown is typically wider than the Morristown-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Hamblen County Alternative School 67
2. Witt Elementary 50
3. Union Heights Elementary 47
4. Morristown East High 40
5. Alpha Elementary 40
6. Meadowview Middle School 39
7. Morristown West High 38
8. Fairview Marguerite 38
9. West Elementary 38
10. Hillcrest Elementary 37
11. Manley Elementary 36
12. John Hay Elementary 36
13. Lincoln Heights Middle School 35
14. Lincoln Heights Elementary 35
15. West View Middle School 32

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Morristown

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 Lincoln Heights Elementary 65.2/100
  2. 2 West Elementary 64.6/100
  3. 3 Lincoln Heights Middle School 64.4/100
  4. 4 Morristown West High 59.6/100
  5. 5 Manley Elementary 59.5/100

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Which Morristown school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Hamblen County Alternative School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Morristown schools in this federal-data comparison at 67/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Morristown, TN? ▼

Morristown has 15 public schools with a total enrollment of 8,956 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.