Cosby High School

Cosby High School is an intimate senior high in Cosby, Tennessee, operated by Cocke County. The school serves 343 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 55% smaller than the state mean of about 754.

Cocke County runs 12 schools in total, collectively educating 4,202 students. Cosby High School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Cosby High School reports that nearly all students (90%) are White; the rest comes out to 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Cocke County indicate median household earnings sit near $48,016, roughly 11% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 18% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Cosby High School is one of 13 public schools in Cocke County (combined enrollment of about 4,932 students).

Cosby Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 10%: 382 students in 2018 compared to 343 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 97% to 90% across the same window.

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