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Tullahoma, Tennessee - 8 schools
An equity score of 35/100 ranks Tullahoma #78 of 140 districts in Tennessee (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $11,873 per pupil, Tullahoma ranks #18 of 141 Tennessee districts by per-pupil spending (Tennessee districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
3,641
Total Enrollment
8
Schools
$11,873
Per-Pupil Spending
High, Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Tullahoma operates 8 public schools serving 3,641 students, placing it among the smaller districts in Tennessee. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 high, 2 combined, 2 elementary, 2 middle 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 Coffee County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $11,873 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 45.5% local, 38.6% state, and 16.0% 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 35/100, ranked #78 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 8 schools offering Advanced Placement (15 AP courses district-wide), a 393.9:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 18.6% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 74.6% White, 8.0% Hispanic or Latino, 6.8% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is East Lincoln Elementary, with a diversity index of 52.8/100.
Its largest campus is Tullahoma High School, enrolling 1,072 students (30% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Tullahoma Virtual Academy, at 71 students, a 15x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Tullahoma High School accounts for 29.4% of all Tullahoma student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Tullahoma-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.
Tullahoma school enrollment varies 15× across entities
Tullahoma school enrollment ranges from 71 students (lowest) to 1,072 students (highest), a spread of 1,001 students. That spread reflects typical mixed-portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Tullahoma student-counselor ratio is 394:1 — 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.
Tullahoma chronic absenteeism rate is 18.6% — 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 Tullahoma is typically wider than the Tullahoma-aggregate figure suggests.