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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / High

Jackson Central Merry High School

Jackson, Tennessee

NCES ID
470258002663
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Jackson Central Merry High School is a public high school in Jackson, Tennessee, run by Madison County. It enrols 438 students — the 45550th 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

438students

45550th nationally, tied with 148

Teachers

13.0FTE

78940th nationally, tied with 1,474

Students per teacher

33.7students

92935th nationally, tied with 7

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 Madison 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. 1North Side High School886 students
  2. 2Northeast Middle School815 students
  3. 3South Side High School810 students
  4. 4Thelma Barker Elementary704 students
  5. 5Community Montessori School650 students
  6. 6Pope School626 students
  7. 7Arlington Elementary School593 students
  8. 8Liberty Technology Magnet High School549 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment−11.7%
  • Teachers−58.1%
  • Students per teacher+123.2%
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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.