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Cleveland, Tennessee - 9 schools
An equity score of 34/100 ranks Cleveland #80 of 140 districts in Tennessee (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $10,816 per pupil, Cleveland ranks #68 of 141 Tennessee districts by per-pupil spending (Tennessee districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
5,768
Total Enrollment
9
Schools
$10,816
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Cleveland operates 9 public schools serving 5,768 students, placing it among the smaller districts in Tennessee. The school portfolio breaks down into 6 combined, 1 high, 1 middle, 1 elementary schools, a compact enough portfolio that families can compare every campus directly before they move, rent, or enrol. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Bradley County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $10,816 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 141 Tennessee districts by per-pupil spending. See how Tennessee compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 32.7% local, 47.0% state, and 20.3% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one. The district's equity score is 34/100, ranked #80 of 140 in Tennessee against a state average of 38, in line with the typical spread seen across the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 9 schools offering Advanced Placement (14 AP courses district-wide), a 402.8:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 23.2% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 45.6% White, 32.0% Hispanic or Latino, 10.7% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Mayfield Elementary, with a diversity index of 69.7/100.
Its largest campus is Cleveland High, enrolling 1,755 students (30% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is E.L. Ross Elementary, at 272 students, a 6x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Cleveland High accounts for 29.8% of all Cleveland student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Cleveland-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Cleveland school enrollment varies 6.5× across entities
Cleveland school enrollment ranges from 272 students (lowest) to 1,755 students (highest), a spread of 1,483 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Cleveland student-counselor ratio is 403:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Cleveland chronic absenteeism rate is 23.2% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Variation between sub-units within Cleveland is typically wider than the Cleveland-aggregate figure suggests.