Carter County Alternative School
Elizabethton · TN · Carter County · Public · K-12 combined
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Unaka High School → Elizabethton Academy → East Tn Christian Home & Academy → Elizabethton High School → Sullivan East High School → Hampton High School → Happy Valley High School → Tennessee High School →📋 At a glance
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 22% of US high schools
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 10% by test-taker volume
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Carter County Alternative School compares for families
What families should know about Carter County Alternative School.
- ▸ LocallyTN sits right at the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math — local school quality will set your kid apart.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Unaka High School, Elizabethton Academy, East Tn Christian Home & Academy and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Bottom 10% by test-taker volume
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
👩🏫 Teacher workforce · federal CRDC
Teacher experience & reliability
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.
Chronic absenteeism
Why this matters to enrollment: A low chronic-absence rate is the cleanest school-level signal of strong family connection, classroom culture, and student engagement — all upstream drivers of enrollment stability. For school leaders: an Enrollment Trend Audit traces this dynamic forward →
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2024 total enrollment.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of +24.0%/year, projecting from 2024's 61 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Nearby high schools — the local competition
The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unaka High School Elizabethton |
Public | 3.3 | 284 | -17.7% |
| Elizabethton Academy Elizabethton |
Private | 8.5 | 13 | — |
| East Tn Christian Home & Academy Elizabethton |
Private | 9.1 | 8 | — |
| Elizabethton High School Elizabethton |
Public | 9.2 | 886 | +6.4% |
| Sullivan East High School Bluff City |
Public | 9.4 | 816 | -4.2% |
| Hampton High School Elizabethton |
Public | 10.1 | 368 | -12.8% |
| Happy Valley High School Elizabethton |
Public | 12.1 | 449 | -4.5% |
| Tennessee High School Bristol |
Public | 13.1 | 1,146 | +1.1% |