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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / Primary

Cowan Elementary

Cowan, Tennessee

NCES ID
470129000386
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Cowan Elementary is a public primary school in Cowan, Tennessee, run by Franklin County. It enrols 279 students — the 68486th largest of 1,932 public schools in Tennessee.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

279students

68486th nationally, tied with 141

Teachers

19.0FTE

67148th nationally, tied with 2,240

Students per teacher

14.7students

44596th nationally, tied with 939

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

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Within Franklin County

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Franklin Co High School1,180 students
  2. 2Huntland School675 students
  3. 3North Middle School587 students
  4. 4Clark Memorial School489 students
  5. 5Decherd Elementary442 students
  6. 6Rock Creek Elementary418 students
  7. 7South Middle School292 students
  8. 8Cowan Elementary279 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Tennessee median across 1,932 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−43.8%
  • Teachers−38.7%
  • Students per teacher−2.6%
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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.