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Collierville, Tennessee - 10 schools
An equity score of 29/100 ranks Collierville #103 of 140 districts in Tennessee (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $11,370 per pupil, Collierville ranks #38 of 141 Tennessee districts by per-pupil spending (Tennessee districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
9,259
Total Enrollment
10
Schools
$11,370
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Middle
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Collierville operates 10 public schools serving 9,259 students, placing it among the smaller districts in Tennessee. The school portfolio breaks down into 6 combined, 2 middle, 1 high, 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 Shelby County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $11,370 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 42.7% local, 40.1% state, and 17.3% 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 29/100, ranked #103 of 140 in Tennessee against a state average of 38, notably less even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 2 of 10 schools offering Advanced Placement (34 AP courses district-wide), a 326.8:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 6.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 51.0% White, 19.2% Asian, 13.7% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Sycamore Elementary School, with a diversity index of 76.2/100.
Its largest campus is Collierville High School, enrolling 2,946 students (31% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Collierville Virtual Academy, at 132 students, a 22x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Collierville High School accounts for 31.4% of all Collierville student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Collierville-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.
Collierville school enrollment varies 22× across entities
Collierville school enrollment ranges from 132 students (lowest) to 2,946 students (highest), a spread of 2,814 students. That spread is wider than typical and predicts noticeable gaps in service quality between the highest and lowest areas. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Collierville student-counselor ratio is 327:1 — near the typical range (US average ~408) — within the typical range for U.S. public districts
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 Variation between sub-units within Collierville is typically wider than the Collierville-aggregate figure suggests.
Collierville chronic absenteeism rate is 6.0% — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.