Public school / Middle
Decatur County Middle School
Parsons, Tennessee
- NCES ID
- 470096000319
- District
- Decatur County
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Decatur County Middle School is a public middle school in Parsons, Tennessee, run by Decatur County. It enrols 426 students — the 47227th largest of 1,932 public schools in Tennessee.
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
426
Teachers
33.0
Students per teacher
12.9
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.
Within Decatur 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.
- 1Riverside High School460 students
- 2Decatur County Middle School426 students
- 3Parsons Elementary376 students
- 4Decaturville Elementary262 students
- Enrollment−14.1%
- Teachers+6.5%
- Students per teacher−14.6%
Where this sits
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