Schools · Rocky Top

Rocky Top, TN schools

Kids attend Lake City Elementary through grade 5, then Lake City Middle School and Clinch River Community School.

Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.

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Rocky Top’s School Grade: B-

The public schools Rocky Top’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 55% of Tennessee’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.

C+Test scoresB-Graduation

Tennessee school districts we grade (143)Better than 45%

Lower resultsHigher results

Tennessee towns with similar household incomes (57)Better than 58%

High confidence. Built on 3,141 tested students and a graduating class of 513; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.

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.

School path

Where Rocky Top kids go to school

Grades PK–5

CLake City Elementary 387 students · Lake City Anderson County School District

Grades 6–8

C+Lake City Middle School 246 students · Lake City Anderson County School District

Grades 9–12

Clinch River Community School Clinton Anderson County School District

Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.

Test scores · 2020–21

State test results

Math (grades PK–12, Anderson County)25%

State average 26.9%

Graduation · class of 2020

95% graduate on time

Graduation rate

95%

TN: 90.3%

Graduating class

513

students

The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years.

Districts

The district serving Rocky Top

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Anderson County School DistrictGrades PK–12 · 19 schools · 6,018 students

$12,945 per studentTN $12,297B-

Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.

Within reach

Colleges near Rocky Top

There’s no college in Rocky Top, but 3 colleges are within 30 miles. The closest is Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville, 19.1 miles away.

Pellissippi State Community CollegeCommunity college · Public · Knoxville19.1 mi6,641 students

South CollegeUniversity or college · For-profit · Knoxville21 mi4,052 students The University of Tennessee-KnoxvilleUniversity or college · Public · Knoxville22.8 mi33,547 students

Straight-line distance from the center of Rocky Top. 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.

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