NCES CCD 2024-25 12 schools TN

Best-Resourced Schools in Springfield, TN

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

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12
Schools
4,645
Students
40.7/100
Avg Resource Index
18.8:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Springfield has more public-school enrollment than 52% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Springfield 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

6 of Springfield's 12 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 32-point gap between Robertson County Phoenix Academy and Robertson Co. Virtual School shows the range hidden by Springfield'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 48%
School count
Top 31%
Resource Index average
49th percentile
Teacher staffing
21st percentile

Springfield High School accounts for 22.1% of all Springfield public-school enrollment

That concentration means Springfield-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

Springfield school enrollment varies 45× across entities

Springfield school enrollment ranges from 23 students (lowest) to 1,026 students (highest), a spread of 1,003 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

Springfield operates one school district — a single-district system

Springfield'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

Springfield student-teacher ratio is 18.8:1 — 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. Robertson County Phoenix Academy 58
2. Innovation Academy of Robertson County 49
3. Cheatham Park Elementary 49
4. Krisle Elementary 46
5. Westside Elementary 42
6. Coopertown Elementary 41
7. Crestview Elementary School 40
8. Springfield High School 38
9. Coopertown Middle School 36
10. Bransford Elementary 33
11. Robertson County Adult High School 30
12. Robertson Co. Virtual School 26

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Springfield

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 Robertson County Adult High School 70.3/100
  2. 2 Crestview Elementary School 69.1/100
  3. 3 Coopertown Middle School 67.5/100
  4. 4 Robertson County Phoenix Academy 67.5/100
  5. 5 Springfield High School 67.3/100

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Which Springfield school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Robertson County Phoenix Academy has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Springfield schools in this federal-data comparison at 58/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Springfield, TN? ▼

Springfield has 12 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,645 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 18.8:1.

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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.