District profile / Tennessee

Giles County

Pulaski, Tennessee · Public school district · #69 of 122 Tennessee districts by enrollment

Compare with peers

3,595

Students

2024-25 school year

Schools

2024-25 school year

$9,731

Spending per student

FY2020-21 · about the same as the Tennessee median

#69

Size rank in Tennessee

of 122 districts listed

Giles County is a public school district based in Pulaski, Tennessee, serving 3,595 students in 8 schools. By enrollment it ranks #69 of the 122 Tennessee districts with 1,000 or more students, larger than about 44% of them. Its schools average 449 students each, about the same as the Tennessee median of 467. It spends about $9,731 per student on day-to-day operations, about the state median.

How Giles County compares

Giles CountyTennessee median, districts with 1,000+ students

Spending per student$9,731

Tennessee median $10,059 · about the same · FY2020-21

Instruction spending per student$6,064

Tennessee median $6,268 · about the same · FY2020-21

Students per school449

Tennessee median 467 · about the same · 2024-25

Spending and staffing

Where the money comes from$44.7 million in revenue · FY2020-21

Federal 15%State 48%Local 38%

Measure	Giles County	Tennessee median	Year
Current spending per student	$9,731	$10,059	FY2020-21
Instruction spending per student	$6,064	$6,268	FY2020-21
Total spending	$37.9 million	n/a	FY2020-21
Total revenue	$44.7 million	n/a	FY2020-21

Spending: NCES school district finance survey (F-33), FY2020-21. Staffing and enrollment: NCES Common Core of Data, 2024-25. Via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. The Tennessee median compares districts with 1,000 or more students.

In the news

0 stories matched

We haven't matched any stories to Giles County yet. Recent Tennessee coverage is on the Tennessee page.

Peer districts in Tennessee

Compare side by side →

District	Students	Schools	Spending per student	Students per teacher	Rank
Lewis CountyHohenwald	3,731	7	$9,946	n/a	#65
DeKalb CountySmithville	3,644	7	$9,021	n/a	#66
TullahomaTullahoma	3,632	8	$11,359	n/a	#67
Dyer CountyDyersburg	3,600	8	$10,160	n/a	#68
Giles CountyPulaski · this district	3,595	8	$9,731	n/a	#69

Similar-size districts nationally

District	Students	Spending per student	Students per teacher
McDonald Co. R-IAnderson, MO	3,595	$9,102	12.8
Paramus Public School DistrictParamus, NJ	3,595	$26,559	10.9
School District of the ChathamsChatham, NJ	3,594	$20,094	11.0
Altus Public SchoolsAltus, OK	3,593	$9,470	18.0

Peers are the districts closest in enrollment, so they can still differ in many other ways. Enrollment, school counts and phone numbers are from the NCES Common Core of Data, 2024-25.

Printed from Superintendent's Corner: https://superintendentscorner.com/district-tn-giles-county