Cheatham Co Central
Ashland City · TN · Cheatham County · Public
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Riverside Academy → Sycamore High School → Pleasant View Christian School → Oak Plains Academy → Arch Academy → Wayne Academy Davidson County → Harpeth High School → Whites Creek High →📋 At a glance
- ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- ✅ Gifted & talented program
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 33% of US high schools
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: 82th percentile by test-taker volume
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 92% (60th percentile nationally)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Cheatham Co Central compares for families
What families should know about Cheatham Co Central.
- ▸ 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: Riverside Academy, Sycamore High School, Pleasant View Christian School and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-2182th percentile 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.
🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts
What % of students graduate on time?
60th percentile nationally
Source: federal EDFacts ACGR (Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate), 2019 vintage via Urban Institute. EDFacts publishes a range (low-high) to preserve privacy on small cohorts; we display the midpoint.
👩🏫 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: Chronic absence is the most reliable early indicator that a student will leave a school — either by transferring out, dropping out, or matriculating to a charter or private alternative. At this level, today's absentees become next year's enrollment loss and the year-after's revenue loss. 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 -2.6%/year, projecting from 2024's 514 students:
≈ 64 fewer students by 2029 — a real revenue/relevance risk worth getting ahead of.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue at risk
At $10,469 per student in district revenue, the 64 students projected to be lost by 2029 represent ≈ $670,016/year in funding at risk.
District total revenue ÷ enrollment, NCES F-33. Public funding largely follows enrollment, so a shrinking class is a recurring budget hit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Riverside Academy Ashland City |
Public | 2.8 | 13 | — |
| Sycamore High School Pleasant View |
Public | 5.0 | 635 | -8.2% |
| Pleasant View Christian School Pleasant View |
Private | 6.4 | 267 | +15.6% |
| Oak Plains Academy Ashland City |
Private | 9.3 | 185 | +150.0% |
| Arch Academy Kingston Springs |
Private | 12.9 | 22 | — |
| Wayne Academy Davidson County Waynesboro |
Private | 14.7 | 49 | — |
| Harpeth High School Kingston Springs |
Public | 14.8 | 425 | -17.2% |
| Whites Creek High Whites Creek |
Public | 15.4 | 730 | +42.9% |