Public school / Middle
South Middle School
Cowan, Tennessee
- NCES ID
- 470129000405
- District
- Franklin County
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
South Middle School is a public middle school in Cowan, Tennessee, run by Franklin County. It enrols 292 students — the 66760th 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
292
Teachers
23.0
Students per teacher
12.7
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.
Within Franklin 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.
- 1Franklin Co High School1,180 students
- 2Huntland School675 students
- 3North Middle School587 students
- 4Clark Memorial School489 students
- 5Decherd Elementary442 students
- 6Rock Creek Elementary418 students
- 7South Middle School292 students
- 8Cowan Elementary279 students
- Enrollment−41.1%
- Teachers−25.8%
- Students per teacher−15.9%
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