Public school / Primary
Dodson Branch Elementary
Cookeville, Tennessee
- NCES ID
- 470207000662
- District
- Jackson County
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Dodson Branch Elementary is a public primary school in Cookeville, Tennessee, run by Jackson County. It enrols 281 students — the 68225th 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
281
Teachers
21.0
Students per teacher
13.4
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 Jackson 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.
- 1Jackson County Middle School438 students
- 2Jackson County High School403 students
- 3Gainesboro Elementary341 students
- 4Dodson Branch Elementary281 students
- Enrollment−43.3%
- Teachers−32.3%
- Students per teacher−11.3%
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