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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / High

De Kalb County High School

Smithville, Tennessee

NCES ID
470099000322
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

De Kalb County High School is a public high school in Smithville, Tennessee, run by Dekalb County. It enrols 807 students — the 13957th 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

807students

13957th nationally, tied with 46

Teachers

53.0FTE

13103rd nationally, tied with 568

Students per teacher

15.2students

49463rd nationally, tied with 889

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 Dekalb 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. 1De Kalb County High School807 students
  2. 2Smithville Elementary599 students
  3. 3Northside Elementary558 students
  4. 4Dekalb Middle School526 students
  5. 5Dekalb West Elementary448 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment+62.7%
  • Teachers+71.0%
  • Students per teacher+0.7%
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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.