Schools · Sweetwater

Sweetwater, TN schools

Kids attend Sweetwater Primary School through grade 2, then Sweetwater Elementary and Sweetwater Jr High School.

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

C+School Grade #109Best schools in TN (of 169)

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Sweetwater’s School Grade: C+

The public schools Sweetwater’s kids attend trail 65% of Tennessee’s districts on state tests. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.

C+Test scores

Tennessee school districts we grade (143)Better than 35%

Lower resultsHigher results

Tennessee towns with similar household incomes (197)Better than 40%

High confidence. Built on 926 tested students; 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. 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.
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 Sweetwater kids go to school

Grades PK–2

Sweetwater Primary School 589 students · Sweetwater Sweetwater City School District

Grades 3–4

A-Sweetwater Elementary 317 students · Sweetwater Sweetwater City School District

Grades 7–8

C-Sweetwater Jr High School 316 students · Sweetwater Sweetwater City 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–8, Sweetwater City)25%

State average 26.9%

Districts

Two districts serve Sweetwater

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Sweetwater City School DistrictGrades PK–8 · 4 schools · 1,532 students

$10,121 per studentTN $13,059C+🏫

Monroe County School District in Sweetwater

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

Within reach

Colleges near Sweetwater

There’s no college in Sweetwater, but 3 colleges are within 30 miles. The closest is Tennessee Wesleyan University in Athens, 12.7 miles away.

Tennessee Wesleyan UniversityUniversity or college · Private nonprofit · Athens12.7 mi941 students

Roane State Community CollegeCommunity college · Public · Harriman20.9 mi3,854 students

Pellissippi State Community CollegeCommunity college · Public · Knoxville29.4 mi6,641 students

Straight-line distance from the center of Sweetwater. 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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