Middle schools in Tennessee.
348 middle schools across 115 districts. Browse every school, filter by name, or jump to a district below.
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What the numbers say across Tennessee.
Computed from this list's v2026.07 K12 Atlas records: school size, staffing ratios, grade spans, and sector mix. Facts, not scores.
students at the median middle school; the middle half of schools enroll between 340 and 718 students.
Reported enrollment · v2026.07
Most commonly reported grade spans in this list.
Reported grade spans · v2026.07
Public, public charter, and private records stay separate. Private schools without a comparable CCD level appear under the state's other-level directory.
Record mix · v2026.07
Concentration: the five most-represented districts account for 33.0% of this list (115 of 348 records); the five most-represented cities account for 29.0%.
Tennessee middle schools in 7 charts.
Drawn from the same v2026.07 records as the tables below. Free to reuse with a link to this page.
Districts with middle schools.
Every district with at least one middle-level record, sorted by record count. Cities counts the distinct reported cities among the district’s records here; Students sums reported enrollment for those same records. Linked districts open full school directories.
| Davidson County | 38 | 6 | 14,599 |
| Memphis-shelby County Schools | 33 | 4 | 16,932 |
| Knox County | 17 | 4 | 13,142 |
| Hamilton County | 15 | 6 | 6,756 |
| Sumner County | 12 | 5 | 6,844 |
| Rutherford County | 11 | 5 | 12,603 |
| Williamson County | 11 | 6 | 9,239 |
| Sevier County | 9 | 5 | 5,226 |
| Montgomery County | 8 | 2 | 8,552 |
| Madison County | 5 | 1 | 2,332 |
| Maury County | 5 | 3 | 3,278 |
| Roane County | 5 | 5 | 1,416 |
| Tennessee Public Charter School Commission | 5 | 3 | 1,329 |
| Anderson County | 4 | 4 | 1,480 |
| Dickson County | 4 | 4 | 1,736 |
| Greene County | 4 | 3 | 1,320 |
| Hamblen County | 4 | 2 | 2,322 |
| Putnam County | 4 | 2 | 3,106 |
| Wilson County | 4 | 3 | 3,700 |
| Bartlett | 3 | 1 | 2,047 |
| Bedford County | 3 | 3 | 1,702 |
| Blount County | 3 | 2 | 1,789 |
| Cheatham County | 3 | 3 | 1,606 |
| Franklin Ssd | 3 | 1 | 1,309 |
| Hawkins County | 3 | 3 | 1,330 |
| Marshall County | 3 | 2 | 1,411 |
| Monroe County | 3 | 3 | 946 |
| Sullivan County | 3 | 3 | 1,820 |
| Tipton County | 3 | 3 | 2,137 |
| Achievement School District | 2 | 1 | 936 |
| Bradley County | 2 | 1 | 2,269 |
| Campbell County | 2 | 2 | 896 |
| Claiborne County | 2 | 2 | 638 |
| Collierville | 2 | 1 | 2,163 |
| Dyer County | 2 | 2 | 832 |
| Fayette County Public Schools | 2 | 2 | 583 |
| Franklin County | 2 | 2 | 918 |
| Haywood County | 2 | 1 | 694 |
| Hickman County | 2 | 2 | 687 |
| Jefferson County | 2 | 2 | 1,110 |
| Johnson City | 2 | 1 | 1,773 |
| Johnson County | 2 | 2 | 1,752 |
| Kingsport | 2 | 1 | 1,736 |
| Lauderdale County | 2 | 2 | 620 |
| Lawrence County | 2 | 2 | 773 |
| Lebanon | 2 | 1 | 1,346 |
| Lewis County | 2 | 1 | 772 |
| Loudon County | 2 | 2 | 1,158 |
| Marion County | 2 | 2 | 675 |
| Maryville | 2 | 1 | 1,781 |
| Oak Ridge | 2 | 1 | 1,485 |
| Rhea County | 2 | 2 | 834 |
| Robertson County | 2 | 2 | 1,175 |
| Sweetwater | 2 | 1 | 626 |
| Tullahoma | 2 | 1 | 803 |
| Union County | 2 | 2 | 1,460 |
| Wayne County | 2 | 2 | 516 |
| Weakley County | 2 | 2 | 743 |
| Alcoa | 1 | 1 | 526 |
| Arlington | 1 | 1 | 960 |
| Athens | 1 | 1 | 519 |
| Benton County | 1 | 1 | 373 |
| Bledsoe County | 1 | 1 | 342 |
| Bristol | 1 | 1 | 871 |
| Cannon County | 1 | 1 | 419 |
| Carter County | 1 | 1 | 354 |
| Chester County | 1 | 1 | 626 |
| Cleveland | 1 | 1 | 1,291 |
| Coffee County | 1 | 1 | 783 |
| Crockett County | 1 | 1 | 614 |
| Dekalb County | 1 | 1 | 534 |
| Decatur County | 1 | 1 | 424 |
| Dyersburg | 1 | 1 | 574 |
| Elizabethton | 1 | 1 | 619 |
| Fayetteville | 1 | 1 | 200 |
| Germantown | 1 | 1 | 972 |
| Gibson Co Sp Dist | 1 | 1 | 757 |
| Giles County | 1 | 1 | 316 |
| Grainger County | 1 | 1 | 363 |
| Greeneville | 1 | 1 | 603 |
| Hancock County | 1 | 1 | 195 |
| Hardeman County Schools | 1 | 1 | 290 |
| Hardin County | 1 | 1 | 643 |
| Houston County | 1 | 1 | 265 |
| Humphreys County | 1 | 1 | 443 |
| Huntingdon Special School District | 1 | 1 | 467 |
| Jackson County | 1 | 1 | 411 |
| Lake County | 1 | 1 | 326 |
| Lenoir City | 1 | 1 | 722 |
| Lexington | 1 | 1 | 238 |
| Macon County | 1 | 1 | 778 |
| Manchester | 1 | 1 | 472 |
| Mckenzie | 1 | 1 | 378 |
| Mcnairy County | 1 | 1 | 197 |
| Meigs County | 1 | 1 | 406 |
| Milan | 1 | 1 | 618 |
| Millington Municipal Schools | 1 | 1 | 537 |
| Morgan County | 1 | 1 | 317 |
| Oneida | 1 | 1 | 282 |
| Overton County | 1 | 1 | 237 |
| Paris | 1 | 1 | 499 |
| Perry County | 1 | 1 | 217 |
| Polk County | 1 | 1 | 293 |
| Scott County | 1 | 1 | 268 |
| Sequatchie County | 1 | 1 | 596 |
| Smith County | 1 | 1 | 289 |
| Stewart County | 1 | 1 | 439 |
| Tennessee Schools for the Deaf | 1 | 1 | 20 |
| Trenton | 1 | 1 | 393 |
| Trousdale County | 1 | 1 | 326 |
| Unicoi County | 1 | 1 | 432 |
| Union City | 1 | 1 | 438 |
| University Schools | 1 | 1 | 264 |
| Warren County | 1 | 1 | 807 |
| White County | 1 | 1 | 827 |
District groups are record counts from v2026.07 K12 Atlas profiles, not evaluations.
Questions about Tennessee middle schools.
How many middle schools are in Tennessee?
K12 Atlas profiles 348 middle schools in Tennessee in release v2026.07, across 115 districts.
Are middle schools and junior high schools the same?
They overlap, but districts use different names and grade configurations. K12 Atlas keeps the reported school level and grade span visible.
How many students attend Tennessee middle schools?
191,247 students were enrolled across 348 middle schools in the 2024 directory release.
How many districts and cities have middle schools in Tennessee?
The directory lists 115 districts and 179 cities with middle-level school records.
What grades do Tennessee middle schools cover?
The most commonly reported grade spans are 06–08 (252), 05–08 (53), 07–08 (8). Each row in the tables above lists its own reported span.
How do I browse all middle schools in Tennessee?
Type in the find box above the districts table to filter by district name. School profiles for this state are not published yet; free key facts appear on every profile as coverage grows.
Can I download the full list of Tennessee middle schools?
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