NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools TN

Best-Resourced Schools in Pikeville, TN

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

5 public K-12 schools in Pikeville 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

1,570

Students

27.6/100

Avg Resource Index

15.1:1

Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

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

3 of Pikeville'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.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Pikeville's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 8th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 53rd percentile. The 45-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 94%
School count: Top 99%
Resource Index average: 8th percentile
Teacher staffing: 53rd percentile

Bledsoe County High School accounts for 29.1% of all Pikeville public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Pikeville-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 Accessed 2026-08-26

Pikeville school enrollment varies 2.6× across entities

Pikeville school enrollment ranges from 176 students (lowest) to 457 students (highest), a spread of 281 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 Accessed 2026-08-26

Pikeville operates one school district — a single-district system

Pikeville'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

Pikeville student-teacher ratio is 15.1:1 — 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 Pikeville is typically wider than the Pikeville-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe Accessed 2026-08-26

#	School	Score	Enrollment	Level	District
1.	Bledsoe County Middle School	36	342	middle	Bledsoe County
2.	Bledsoe County High School	29	457	high	Bledsoe County
3.	Mary V Wheeler Elementary	28	212	Combined	Bledsoe County
4.	Pikeville Elementary	23	383	Combined	Bledsoe County
5.	Cecil B Rigsby Elementary	22	176	Combined	Bledsoe County

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Pikeville

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 Pikeville school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Bledsoe County Middle School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Pikeville schools in this federal-data comparison at 36/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Pikeville, TN? ▼

Pikeville has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 1,570 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 15.1:1.

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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.