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Data & Dashboards

Tennessee school data,made searchable.

Eleven interactive dashboards covering every public school in Tennessee. Test scores, graduation rates, post-graduation outcomes, and equity gaps, drawn from Tennessee Department of Education data and searchable by school, district, or county.

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Eleven angles on Tennessee education

Each dashboard is searchable by school, district, or county. Pair two or three to see the full picture of how a school is doing.

  • Report Card

    School Grades

    Tennessee’s A through F letter grade for every public school, with the composite scores and methodology that underpin it.

    1,697 schools · A-F scaleOpen dashboard→
  • Test Scores

    ACT Scores

    Composite and subject scores for every Tennessee high school, measured against the 21-point college-readiness benchmark.

    405 high schools · Subject + compositeOpen dashboard→
  • Outcomes

    Graduation Rates

    On-time graduation rates by school and district across all 95 counties, with dropout context and three-year trends.

    4-year adjusted cohort · Multi-yearOpen dashboard→
  • Outcomes

    College-Going Rates

    How many graduates enroll in postsecondary education by the fall after graduation, including TN Promise context.

    5-year trend · NSC-matchedOpen dashboard→
  • Readiness

    Ready Graduate Rates

    College and career readiness measured across six qualifying pathways, the state’s primary readiness benchmark.

    True 6-pathway rate · 75% goalOpen dashboard→
  • Outcomes

    Flight Scores

    A 0-100 composite measure of how well a high school prepares its students for college, career, or military life.

    5 performance tiers · County rankOpen dashboard→
  • Attendance

    Chronic Absenteeism

    The single strongest predictor of academic failure we have. Percent of students missing 10% or more of school days, per school.

    1,855 schools · K-12 · Multi-yearOpen dashboard→
  • Equity

    School Discipline

    Suspensions, expulsions, and overall discipline rates by school, plus race and gender breakdowns surfacing where the gaps are widest.

    1,859 schools · Race/gender gapsOpen dashboard→
  • Workforce

    Teacher Retention

    How many teachers stay at a school year over year. Sustained churn shows up in the data before it shows up in scores.

    1,857 schools · 3-year trendOpen dashboard→
  • Readiness

    College & Career Readiness

    Graduation, ACT readiness, postsecondary enrollment, and industry certifications joined into one view per school.

    4 readiness pathways · Per schoolOpen dashboard→
  • Equity

    Equity & Achievement Gaps

    Proficiency gaps across race, income, and disability for every student subgroup in every Tennessee public school.

    Per-subgroup proficiency · 95 countiesOpen dashboard→
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How to use this section

One school, three data points, a real answer.

A school grade tells you a letter. The dashboards in this section tell you why. Start with the school you care about, then read the same school across three or four tools until the picture comes into focus.

For a parent comparing two schools, the pairing that matters is School Grades plus Graduation Rates plus Ready Graduate. For a school board member evaluating a district, Equity Gaps plus College-Going Rates plus Flight Scores tells you whether outcomes match opportunity. For a journalist or researcher, every dashboard exposes the underlying data and links back to the original Tennessee Department of Education source.

No login. No paywall. No tracking. The data belongs to the public; we just make it findable.

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    Enter your ZIP code or district name for a single-page dashboard with every metric we track on your school, plus board meetings and local news.

  • Choice Guide

    School choice in Tennessee

    A plain-English walkthrough of district, charter, magnet, voucher, and homeschool options, with the data you need to compare them honestly.

Sources

All dashboards in this section pull from the Tennessee Department of Education Report Card, the National Student Clearinghouse, and the state’s annual ACT participation file. Each dashboard names its specific source at the bottom of the page.

Caveats

Small-enrollment schools may have suppressed data to protect student privacy. Alternative schools and very-small-enrollment schools are not graded by the state and appear as Not Rated on the school grades dashboard. Subgroup data is suppressed when fewer than ten students fall into a group.

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