NCES CCD 2024-25 14 schools TN

Best-Resourced Schools in Sevierville, TN

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

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14
Schools
5,814
Students
41.3/100
Avg Resource Index
12.8:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Sevierville has more public-school enrollment than 62% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Sevierville 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

7 of Sevierville's 14 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 49-point gap between Parkway Academy and Sevierville Primary shows the range hidden by Sevierville'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 38%
School count
Top 25%
Resource Index average
52nd percentile
Teacher staffing
81st percentile

Sevier County High School accounts for 16.3% of all Sevierville public-school enrollment

That concentration means Sevierville-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

Sevierville school enrollment varies 950× across entities

Sevierville school enrollment ranges from 1 students (lowest) to 950 students (highest), a spread of 949 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. 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

Sevierville operates one school district — a single-district system

Sevierville'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

Sevierville student-teacher ratio is 12.8:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Parkway Academy 74
2. Greenbrier Alternative Learning Center 63
3. Gary Hardin Academy 62
4. Sevier County High School 41
5. Catlettsburg Elementary School 41
6. T Lawson Early Childhood Education Center 41
7. New Center Elementary 39
8. Sevierville Intermediate 37
9. Catons Chapel Elementary 34
10. Wearwood Elementary 34
11. Sevierville Middle School 30
12. Boyds Creek Elementary School 29
13. Pigeon Forge Primary 28
14. Sevierville Primary 25

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Sevierville

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 Pigeon Forge Primary 56.0/100
  2. 2 Sevierville Primary 53.0/100
  3. 3 Sevierville Intermediate 51.9/100
  4. 4 Sevier County High School 50.3/100
  5. 5 Gary Hardin Academy 40.0/100

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Which Sevierville school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Parkway Academy has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Sevierville schools in this federal-data comparison at 74/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Sevierville, TN? ▼

Sevierville has 14 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,814 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.8:1.

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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.