NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools TN

Best-Resourced Schools in Portland, TN

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8 public K-12 schools in Portland 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
3,682
Students
41.3/100
Avg Resource Index
14:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Portland has more public-school enrollment than 39% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Portland 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.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Portland's list includes 2 elementary, 2 middle, and 2 high-school campuses, plus 2 combined-grade records. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Portland lists only 8 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 26 to 1,151 students, a 44-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 61%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
52nd percentile
Teacher staffing
67th percentile

Portland High School accounts for 31.3% of all Portland public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Portland-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

Portland school enrollment varies 44× across entities

Portland school enrollment ranges from 26 students (lowest) to 1,151 students (highest), a spread of 1,125 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

Portland operates one school district — a single-district system

Portland'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

Portland student-teacher ratio is 14.0:1 — 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 Portland is typically wider than the Portland-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Clyde Riggs Elementary 55
2. Portland West Middle School 48
3. Portland East Middle School 47
4. J W Wiseman Elementary 42
5. Portland Gateview Elementary School 40
6. Watt Hardison Elementary 37
7. Portland High School 31
8. Sumner County Middle Technical College High School at Portla 30

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Portland

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 J W Wiseman Elementary 55.2/100
  2. 2 Portland East Middle School 45.7/100
  3. 3 Portland Gateview Elementary School 43.1/100
  4. 4 Watt Hardison Elementary 40.5/100
  5. 5 Clyde Riggs Elementary 39.8/100

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Which Portland school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Clyde Riggs Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Portland schools in this federal-data comparison at 55/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Portland, TN? ▼

Portland has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,682 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14:1.

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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.