Belle Meade, TN schools
Kids attend one of 70 schools through grade 7, then one of 25 schools and one of 15 high schools.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
Belle Meade’s School Grade: D-
The public schools Belle Meade’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 97% of Tennessee’s districts on state tests and graduation.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Tennessee’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Tennessee only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Tennessee with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
Where Belle Meade kids go to school
Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
State test results
82% graduate on time
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #159 of 163 TN towns →
The district serving Belle Meade
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Colleges near Belle Meade
There’s no college in Belle Meade, but 23 colleges are within 30 miles. The closest is Nashville State Community College in Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government, 2.4 miles away.
13 more within 30 miles.
Straight-line distance from the center of Belle Meade. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus. Colleges marked › have their own page; the others are too small or don’t report enough to the Department of Education for one.
We don’t have any schools located in Belle Meade yet.