Public school / High
Smyrna West Alternative School
Smyrna, Tennessee
- NCES ID
- 470369001528
- District
- Rutherford County
- School type
- Alternative
- Title I
- Not designated
Smyrna West Alternative School is a public high school in Smyrna, Tennessee, run by Rutherford County. It enrols 90 students — the 88173rd 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
90
Teachers
16.0
Students per teacher
5.6
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 Rutherford 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.
- 1Stewarts Creek High School2,391 students
- 2Rockvale High School2,292 students
- 3Smyrna High School2,200 students
- 4Blackman High School2,194 students
- 5Lavergne High School2,100 students
- 6Riverdale High School2,043 students
- 7Oakland High School1,980 students
- 8Siegel High School1,861 students
- Enrollment−81.9%
- Teachers−48.4%
- Students per teacher−62.9%
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