Bristol Tennessee Middle School

Bristol Tennessee Middle School is a high-enrollment middle-grades school in Bristol, Tennessee, under Bristol. The school runs grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 871 students. Middle schools in Tennessee have about 554 students on average; enrollment here is 57% higher.

Bristol Tennessee Middle School falls under Bristol, which has 9 schools enrolling 4,044 students.

Bristol Tennessee Middle School is 84% White by enrollment. The rest of enrollment is 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, and 3% Black. Census estimates put the White share of Sullivan County's population at about 92%. The diversity index for Bristol Tennessee Middle School is 28%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.

Among Tennessee public middle schools, Bristol Tennessee Middle School outscored 71%, which works out to a B+ on the allk12 Grade.

The school is in Sullivan County, where median household income comes to about $58,807, roughly 27% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. Sullivan County counts 37 public schools with about 19,066 students.

Bristol Tennessee Middle School's closest public school neighbor is Tennessee High School, about 0.3 miles away. Within five miles of Bristol Tennessee Middle School, there are at least 8 other public schools.

NCES lists the school's locale as City: Small. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.

The school's enrollment figures are 582 for 2020-21 and 871 for 2024-25. Differences this large can reflect a change in grade levels, a boundary change, or a merger.

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