2023 District Accountability

In accordance with Tennessee's accountability system, as well as federal and state law, the Tennessee Department of Education names districts that are excelling, as well as those who need additional support.

Under Tennessee’s accountability system, districts are expected to increase achievement levels for all students and demonstrate student growth across all student groups. Districts are assessed on their performance across six critical performance indicators measured through multiple pathways.  The indicators include Grade Band Success Rates, rates at which students are Chronically Out of School, performance on the English Language Proficiency Assessment (ELPA), and Graduation rates. District accountability scores are calculated using a weighted average of the district’s scores across all indicators and student groups to determine a district’s designation. The five possible district designations are Exemplary, Advancing, Satisfactory, Marginal, and In Need of Improvement. For more information about how district accountability designations are determined, please see the 2022-23 Federal Accountability Protocol.

On Friday, February 16, 2024, all individual district designations were approved by the State Board of Education pursuant to T.C.A. § 49-1-602.

Additional information about each of the designations, as well as a list of districts that received each designation for 2022-23, can be found below.

View the Designations

Districts designated as exemplary received an overall score equal to or greater than 3.1. See below for a list of districts (n = 12) with Exemplary designation for 2022-23. 

Bells City Schools

Bledsoe County Schools

Bradford Special School District

Dyer County Schools

Dyersburg City Schools

Franklin Special School District

Gibson County Special School District

Johnson City Schools

Rogersville City Schools

Sweetwater City Schools

Tennessee School for the Deaf

Trousdale County Schools

Districts designated as advancing received an overall score equal to or greater than 2.1 but less than 3.1. See below for a list of districts (n = 83) with Advancing designation for 2022-23.

Alamo City Schools

Alcoa City Schools

Alvin C York Institute

Anderson County Schools

Arlington Municipal Schools

Athens City Schools

Bartlett City Schools

Benton County Schools

Blount County Schools

Bradley County Schools

Bristol City Schools

Carter County Schools

Cheatham County Schools

Chester County Schools

Clinton City Schools

Coffee County Schools

Collierville Schools

Crockett County Schools

Cumberland County Schools

Dayton City Schools

Decatur County Schools

DeKalb County Schools

Department of Children's Services

Dickson County Schools

Elizabethton City Schools

Etowah City School

Fayetteville City Schools

Germantown Municipal Schools

Grainger County Schools

Greene County Schools

Greeneville City Schools

Grundy County Schools

Hamblen County Schools

Henderson County Schools

Henry County Schools

Humboldt City Schools

Huntingdon Special Schools

Jackson County Schools

Jefferson County Schools

Kingsport City Schools

Lakeland Schools

Lawrence County Schools

Lebanon Special School District

Lewis County Schools

Lexington City Schools

Lincoln County Schools

Loudon County Schools

Macon County Schools

Manchester City Schools

Maryville City Schools

McKenzie Special School District

McMinn County Schools

McNairy County Schools

Meigs County Schools

Metro Nashville Public Schools

Milan Special School District

Millington Municipal Schools

Monroe County Schools

Moore County Schools

Murfreesboro City Schools

Oak Ridge Schools

Overton County Schools

Perry County Schools

Putnam County Schools

Rhea County Schools

Roane County Schools

Rutherford County Schools

Scott County Schools

Smith County Schools

Stewart County Schools

Sumner County Schools

Tennessee Public Charter School Commission

Tipton County Schools

Trenton Special School District

Tullahoma City Schools

Union City Schools

Van Buren County Schools

Washington County Schools

Wayne County Schools

Weakley County Schools

White County Schools

Williamson County Schools

Wilson County Schools


Districts designated as satisfactory received an overall score equal to or greater than 1.1 but less than 2.1. See below for a list of districts (n = 44) with Satisfactory designation for 2022-23. 

Bedford County Schools

Campbell County Schools

Claiborne County Schools

Clarksville-Montgomery County Schools

Clay County Schools

Cleveland City Schools

Cocke County Schools

Fayette County Schools

Fentress County Schools

Franklin County Schools

Giles County Schools

Hamilton County Schools

Hancock County Schools

Hardeman County Schools

Hardin County Schools

Hawkins County Schools

Haywood County Schools

Hollow Rock-Bruceton Special School District

Humphreys County Schools

Jackson-Madison County Schools

Johnson County Schools

Knox County Schools

Lake County Schoos

Lauderdale County Schools

Lenoir City Schools

Marion County Schools

Marshall County Schools

Maury County Schools

Memphis-Shelby County Schools

Morgan County Schools

Newport City Schools

Obion County Schools

Oneida Special School District

Paris Special School District

Polk County Schools

Richard City Schools

Sequatchie County Schools

Sevier County Schools

Sullivan County Schools

Tennessee School for the Blind

Unicoi County Schools

Union County Schools

Warren County Schools

West Carroll Special School District

 

Districts designated as marginal received an overall score of less than 1.1. In 2022-23, none of the districts received Marginal designation.


Districts receive an in need of improvement designation if their overall score falls in the bottom five percent of all districts. See below for a list of districts (n = 7) within Need of Improvement designation for 2022-23.

Achievement School District

Cannon County Schools

Hickman County Schools

Houston County Schools

Pickett County Schools

Robertson County Schools

South Carroll County Special School District