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Sweetwater, Tennessee - 4 schools
An equity score of 21/100 ranks Sweetwater #130 of 140 districts in Tennessee (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $9,411 per pupil, Sweetwater ranks #132 of 141 Tennessee districts by per-pupil spending (Tennessee districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
1,486
Total Enrollment
4
Schools
$9,411
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Sweetwater operates 4 public schools serving 1,486 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Tennessee. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 elementary, 1 combined, 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 Monroe County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $9,411 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the bottom 15 of 141 Tennessee districts by per-pupil spending. See how Tennessee compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 23.4% local, 50.8% state, and 25.8% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles. The district's equity score is 21/100, ranked #130 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.
a 383:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 16.9% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 76.0% White, 16.1% Hispanic or Latino, 2.0% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Sweetwater Jr High School, with a diversity index of 42.6/100.
Its largest campus is Sweetwater Primary School, enrolling 589 students (38% of the district's total enrollment).
Sweetwater Primary School accounts for 38.4% of all Sweetwater student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Sweetwater-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. 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.
Sweetwater student-counselor ratio is 383:1 — 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.
Sweetwater chronic absenteeism rate is 16.9% — 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 Sweetwater is typically wider than the Sweetwater-aggregate figure suggests.