County / FIPS 47139
Polk County
Tennessee
Polk County runs 7 public schools reporting to NCES. No Medicare-certified hospital reports to CMS from here — a real finding about rural healthcare access, not a gap in this site; Tennessee has other facilities nearby.
At a glance
Public schools
7
Hospitals
0
With a star rating
0
Land area
435
Federal money
Obligations recorded against a place of performance in Polk County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$150.7M
Per resident
$8,588
Change since FY2021
+47%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $102M |
| 2022 | $112M |
| 2023 | $119M |
| 2024 | $125M |
| 2025 | $151M |
Figures are nominal — not adjusted for inflation — because USAspending publishes them that way and adjusting them here would mean this site had edited a government figure. The per-resident figure divides by the 2020 decennial count, which is the population USAspending carries; a 2020 denominator against 2025 spending overstates per-head figures wherever a place has grown since. Polk County ranks 1934th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Public schools in Polk County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benton Elementary | Polk County | Benton | 370 |
| Chilhowee Middle School | Polk County | Benton | 322 |
| Copper Basin Elementary School | Polk County | Copperhill | 349 |
| Copper Basin High School | Polk County | Copperhill | 265 |
| Polk County High School | Polk County | Benton | 443 |
| Polk Innovative Learning Academy | Polk County | Benton | 68 |
| South Polk Elementary | Polk County | Ild Fort | 331 |