NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools TN

Best-Resourced Schools in Shelbyville, TN

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8 public K-12 schools in Shelbyville 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
5,360
Students
29.9/100
Avg Resource Index
13.2:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Lean reported-resource profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Shelbyville has more public-school enrollment than 58% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Shelbyville's average Resource Investment Index falls in the lower portion of the 4,487-city comparison set. The index is a resource snapshot, not an academic grade: it reflects the federal staffing, counselor, gifted-program, and attendance fields available for local campuses. The most useful next step is to open the individual schools below and identify which component is pulling each score down, because the same city average can hide very different campus-level constraints.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

6 of Shelbyville'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

Shelbyville's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 12th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 77th percentile. The 65-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 42%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
12th percentile
Teacher staffing
77th percentile

Shelbyville Central High School accounts for 29.9% of all Shelbyville public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Shelbyville-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

Shelbyville school enrollment varies 5.0× across entities

Shelbyville school enrollment ranges from 323 students (lowest) to 1,604 students (highest), a spread of 1,281 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

Shelbyville operates one school district — a single-district system

Shelbyville'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

Shelbyville student-teacher ratio is 13.2:1 — 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. Thomas Magnet School 39
2. South Side Elementary 34
3. East Side Elementary 31
4. Eakin Elementary 30
5. Harris Middle School 29
6. Learning Way Elementary 27
7. Liberty Elementary 26
8. Shelbyville Central High School 23

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Shelbyville

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 Eakin Elementary 69.6/100
  2. 2 Learning Way Elementary 64.9/100
  3. 3 Harris Middle School 64.6/100
  4. 4 Shelbyville Central High School 63.9/100
  5. 5 South Side Elementary 63.1/100

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Which Shelbyville school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Thomas Magnet School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Shelbyville schools in this federal-data comparison at 39/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Shelbyville, TN? ▼

Shelbyville has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,360 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 13.2:1.

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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.