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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / Primary

Forks River Elementary

Elmwood, Tennessee

NCES ID
470387001599
District
Smith County
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Forks River Elementary is a public primary school in Elmwood, Tennessee, run by Smith County. It enrols 202 students — the 77765th 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

202students

77765th nationally, tied with 118

Teachers

14.0FTE

77332nd nationally, tied with 1,607

Students per teacher

14.4students

41726th nationally, tied with 949

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 Smith 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. 1Gordonsville High School540 students
  2. 2Smith County High School501 students
  3. 3Carthage Elementary445 students
  4. 4Smith County Middle School327 students
  5. 5Gordonsville Elementary School326 students
  6. 6Defeated Elementary277 students
  7. 7New Middleton Elementary227 students
  8. 8Union Heights Elementary216 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment−59.3%
  • Teachers−54.8%
  • Students per teacher−4.6%
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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.