NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools TN

Best-Resourced Schools in White House, TN

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8 public K-12 schools in White House 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
7,060
Students
42/100
Avg Resource Index
17.6:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, White House has more public-school enrollment than 70% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. White House 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.

The listed grade span is structurally narrow

White House's 8 listed schools do not form a conventional mix of elementary, middle, and high-school campuses. The missing or thin grade bands make all-school city averages less representative of a typical K–12 pathway; district boundaries and nearby-city options may matter more for the grades not well represented here.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 20-point gap between White House Middle School and White House Heritage High School shows the range hidden by White House'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 30%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
55th percentile
Teacher staffing
28th percentile

Tennessee Connections Academy Johnson County 9-12 accounts for 21.9% of all White House public-school enrollment

That concentration means White House-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

White House school enrollment varies 3.5× across entities

White House school enrollment ranges from 435 students (lowest) to 1,543 students (highest), a spread of 1,108 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

White House student-teacher ratio is 17.6:1 — 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 White House is typically wider than the White House-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. White House Middle School 54
2. Harold B. Williams Elementary School 50
3. Tennessee Connections Academy Johnson County K-8 45
4. Robert F. Woodall Elementary 40
5. White House High School 39
6. White House Heritage Elementary School 38
7. Tennessee Connections Academy Johnson County 9-12 36
8. White House Heritage High School 34

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in White House

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 Tennessee Connections Academy Johnson County K-8 57.9/100
  2. 2 Tennessee Connections Academy Johnson County 9-12 57.7/100
  3. 3 Robert F. Woodall Elementary 46.0/100
  4. 4 White House Middle School 38.9/100
  5. 5 White House High School 38.0/100

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Which White House school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

White House Middle School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the White House schools in this federal-data comparison at 54/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in White House, TN? ▼

White House has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 7,060 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 17.6:1.

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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.