District profile / Tennessee

Madison County

Jackson, Tennessee · Public school district · #12 of 122 Tennessee districts by enrollment

Compare with peers

13,017

Students

2024-25 school year

Schools

2024-25 school year

$9,946

Spending per student

FY2020-21 · about the same as the Tennessee median

#12

Size rank in Tennessee

of 122 districts listed

Madison County is a public school district based in Jackson, Tennessee, serving 13,017 students in 26 schools. By enrollment it ranks #12 of the 122 Tennessee districts with 1,000 or more students, larger than about 91% of them. Its schools average 501 students each, about the same as the Tennessee median of 467. It spends about $9,946 per student on day-to-day operations, about the state median.

How Madison County compares

Madison CountyTennessee median, districts with 1,000+ students

Spending per student$9,946

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

Instruction spending per student$5,968

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

Students per school501

Tennessee median 467 · 7% above · 2024-25

Spending and staffing

Where the money comes from$136.6 million in revenue · FY2020-21

Federal 20%State 41%Local 38%

Measure	Madison County	Tennessee median	Year
Current spending per student	$9,946	$10,059	FY2020-21
Instruction spending per student	$5,968	$6,268	FY2020-21
Total spending	$141.0 million	n/a	FY2020-21
Total revenue	$136.6 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 Madison 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
Sevier CountyKodak	14,408	33	$11,196	n/a	#10
Maury CountyColumbia	13,098	24	$9,447	n/a	#11
Madison CountyJackson · this district	13,017	26	$9,946	n/a	#12
Putnam CountyCookeville	11,776	22	$9,654	n/a	#13
Robertson CountySpringfield	11,267	23	$8,637	n/a	#14

Similar-size districts nationally

District	Students	Spending per student	Students per teacher
Springfield School District 186Springfield, IL	13,014	$17,633	13.0
Bullitt CountyShepherdsville, KY	13,007	$10,867	17.1
San Angelo ISDSan Angelo, TX	13,004	$9,161	15.5
OxnardOxnard, CA	13,003	$14,611	20.0

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-madison-county