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Putnam County Adult High School

A public high school for grades 9 to 12 in Cookeville, Tennessee 38506

268 East Main Street, Cookeville, Tennessee 38506. (931) 528-8685.

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The short answer

Record last released by NCES on Jul 1, 2026.

Each figure’s source sits beside it, in its section below.

How do students fare?

  • ED has no 2022-23 chronic absence count for this school.
  • ED’s own figures for 2022-23: 18.2% for its district and 23.6% for Tennessee.
  • ED publishes no 2022-23 four-year graduation rate for this school.
Source:

U.S. Department of Education, chronic absenteeism, 2022-23. Released Nov 7, 2024. Updated yearly.

NCES, school membership, 2022-23. Released Jan 11, 2024. Updated yearly.

U.S. Department of Education, ED Data Express: four-year adjusted-cohort graduation rates and cohort counts (FS150, FS151), school level, 2020-21 to 2022-23. Released Dec 11, 2024. Updated yearly.

What kind of school is it, and who does it serve?

  • A public high school for grades 9 to 12.
  • Open in NCES’s 2025-26 directory, which is still preliminary.
  • NCES gives no 2024-25 count of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch for this school: its state didn’t report one.
  • NCES counts 13 students directly certified for free meals in 2024-25, without an application, through their families’ part in programs such as SNAP.
  • It serves every student free meals under the Community Eligibility Provision, which takes no applications, so states count eligibility at such schools in different ways.
  • Around the school, a family with children aged 5 to 17 has an income of about 223% of the federal poverty threshold for its size (100% is at the threshold), by NCES’s 2021-22 estimate from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey of 2018-2022; its standard error is 53 points.
  • That describes the school’s neighbourhood, which NCES says may differ from the neighbourhoods its students live in.
Source:

NCES, school directory, 2025-26 (preliminary). Released Jul 1, 2026. Updated yearly.

NCES, Common Core of Data, 2024-25. Released Dec 29, 2025. Updated yearly.

NCES, EDGE school neighborhood poverty estimates, 2021-22. Released Oct 15, 2024. Updated yearly.

What did the school report?

What the school reported to the Office for Civil Rights for 2023-24. These are the school’s own counts, not findings.

  • The 2023-24 Civil Rights Data Collection has no record for this school.

Who teaches and supports students?

Staff, in full-time equivalents unless shown as a share
MeasureThis school
Teachers, 2024-25Not given
Students per teacher, 2024-25Not given

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among the 12 nearest public high schools in Tennessee, within 27.7 miles, the middle value for chronic absence in 2022-23 was 24.7%; ED has no figure for this one.
Source:

U.S. Department of Education, chronic absenteeism, 2022-23. Released Nov 7, 2024. Updated yearly.

The 12 nearest, by straight-line distance
SchoolMiles awayChronically absent, 2022-23
Putnam County Adult High School This schoolNot given
Cookeville High School2.426.1%
Upperman High School10.821.7%
Monterey High School11.016.6%
Livingston Academy15.532.5%
Jackson County High School17.928.5%
White County High School18.024.7%
Clay County Adult High School24.3Not given
Clarkrange High School24.637.3%
Clay County High School25.322.8%
Gordonsville High School27.111.5%
De Kalb County High School27.724.7%

Who runs it?

  • Run by Putnam County Schools, its local education agency in NCES’s directory.
  • District spending, fiscal year 2024: Putnam County Schools spent $11,973 per student, by the Census Bureau’s count of the district’s spending and its 11,762 students, of which $7,231 went on instruction and $3,947 on support services such as administration, buildings and transport.
  • That is the district’s figure across all its schools, not this school’s own: its day-to-day spending on salaries, benefits, services and supplies, not on construction, equipment, debt or payments to other school systems.
Source:

NCES, school directory, 2025-26 (preliminary). Released Jul 1, 2026. Updated yearly.

U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances, fiscal year 2024: individual unit tables. Released May 7, 2026. Updated yearly.

Has anything been proven against it?

  • Federal school data don’t record findings against a school: the counts here are what the school reported, and the Office for Civil Rights’ own investigations aren’t included.

What the record doesn’t say

  • Federal school data arrive one to three years after the school year they describe, so each figure here carries its own year.
  • To protect students’ privacy, ED adds or takes away one at random from chronic absence counts of four or fewer, so a small count may be one off.
  • ED publishes each school’s test results in reading and language arts and in mathematics, but they aren’t loaded here yet.

Sources

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Source:

This copy of the record was made on Oct 19, 2026.

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Not fully inspected in over two years (CMS flag)

11 health citations at the latest inspection cycle

The state average is 14.3.

Source:

CMS, State and US Averages and Health Deficiencies. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.

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