NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools TN

Best-Resourced Schools in Ooltewah, TN

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

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8
Schools
6,479
Students
42.6/100
Avg Resource Index
22.2:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Ooltewah has more public-school enrollment than 66% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Ooltewah 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

4 of Ooltewah's 8 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.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Ooltewah's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 59th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 7th percentile. The 52-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.

City enrollment
Top 34%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
59th percentile
Teacher staffing
7th percentile

East Hamilton High School accounts for 20.0% of all Ooltewah public-school enrollment

That concentration means Ooltewah-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

Ooltewah school enrollment varies 2.4× across entities

Ooltewah school enrollment ranges from 547 students (lowest) to 1,293 students (highest), a spread of 746 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

Ooltewah operates one school district — a single-district system

Ooltewah'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

Ooltewah student-teacher ratio is 22.2:1 — 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. Ooltewah Elementary 48
2. Wallace a. Smith Elementary 47
3. Ooltewah High School 46
4. Ooltewah Middle School 46
5. Hunter Middle School 43
6. Snow Hill Elementary 43
7. Wolftever Creek Elementary 37
8. East Hamilton High School 31

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Ooltewah

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 Ooltewah Middle School 73.9/100
  2. 2 Wolftever Creek Elementary 70.0/100
  3. 3 East Hamilton High School 67.0/100
  4. 4 Ooltewah High School 66.0/100
  5. 5 Wallace a. Smith Elementary 51.3/100

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Which Ooltewah school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Ooltewah Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Ooltewah schools in this federal-data comparison at 48/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Ooltewah, TN? ▼

Ooltewah has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 6,479 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 22.2:1.

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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.