Carter County Alternative School

As a very small high school, Carter County Alternative School serves students in Elizabethton, Tennessee. It has an enrollment of 61 students in grades 5 through 12. That compares with an average of about 754 students for high schools in Tennessee.

Carter County Alternative School is one of the 15 schools that make up Carter County (4,539 students in total).

The share of students at Carter County Alternative School who are White is 90%. Smaller groups are 5% Hispanic and 3% multiracial. Carter County residents are about 94% White, a similar share. A diversity index of 18% means there is an 18% chance two randomly chosen students at Carter County Alternative School are from different groups.

The county, Carter County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $50,135 a year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 13% of people live in poverty. Carter County has 21 public schools with about 7,217 students, including Carter County Alternative School.

Carter County Online Academy is less than a tenth of a mile from Carter County Alternative School, the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, 4 other public schools are within five miles.

NCES assigns Carter County Alternative School the locale Suburb: Mid-size, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.

The school's enrollment figures are 17 for 2020-21 and 61 for 2024-25. Differences this large can reflect a change in grade levels, a boundary change, or a merger.

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