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Germantown, Tennessee - 7 schools
An equity score of 30/100 ranks Germantown #100 of 140 districts in Tennessee (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $10,888 per pupil, Germantown ranks #67 of 141 Tennessee districts by per-pupil spending (Tennessee districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
6,026
Total Enrollment
7
Schools
$10,888
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Germantown operates 7 public schools serving 6,026 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Tennessee. The school portfolio breaks down into 5 combined, 1 high, 1 middle schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. 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 $10,888 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 42.8% local, 35.8% state, and 21.5% 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 30/100, ranked #100 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 7 schools offering Advanced Placement (38 AP courses district-wide), a 487.7:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 15.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 70.0% White, 11.2% African American, 7.0% Asian across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Germantown Online Academy of Learning, with a diversity index of 63.1/100.
Its largest campus is Houston High School, enrolling 1,806 students (30% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Germantown Online Academy of Learning, at 84 students, a 22x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Houston High School accounts for 29.8% of all Germantown student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Germantown-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.
Germantown school enrollment varies 22× across entities
Germantown school enrollment ranges from 84 students (lowest) to 1,806 students (highest), a spread of 1,722 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.
Germantown student-counselor ratio is 488:1 — 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.
Germantown chronic absenteeism rate is 15.3% — 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 Germantown is typically wider than the Germantown-aggregate figure suggests.