Public school / Middle
Joe Shafer Middle School
Gallatin, Tennessee
- NCES ID
- 470402001213
- District
- Sumner County
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Joe Shafer Middle School is a public middle school in Gallatin, Tennessee, run by Sumner County. It enrols 666 students — the 21462nd 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
666
Teachers
48.0
Students per teacher
13.9
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 Sumner 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.
- 1Gallatin Senior High School1,659 students
- 2Hendersonville High School1,537 students
- 3Beech Sr High School1,475 students
- 4Portland High School1,199 students
- 5Station Camp High School1,110 students
- 6Station Camp Elementary872 students
- 7Station Camp Middle School861 students
- 8Jack Anderson Elementary830 students
- Enrollment+34.3%
- Teachers+54.8%
- Students per teacher−7.9%
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