Tellico Plains High School

Tellico Plains High School operates as a cozy 9-12 campus in Tellico Plains, Tennessee, run under Monroe County. Current enrollment sits at 435 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Tennessee's public schools average about 754 students each, so Tellico Plains High School sits 42% leaner than that benchmark.

Within Monroe County, which oversees 13 schools and 5,006 students, Tellico Plains High School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Tellico Plains High School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (93%). The remainder breaks down as 4% Hispanic.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Monroe County shows the typical household earns roughly $56,895 per year, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Tellico Plains High School is one of 17 public schools in Monroe County (combined enrollment of about 6,538 students).

The closest other public school is Tellico Plains Elementary, roughly 0.9 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Tellico Plains High School.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 5%: 460 students in 2018 compared to 435 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 97% to 93%.

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