Summary:
Zip code 37659, which serves the Jonesborough area of Tennessee, is home to a single public high school: David Crockett High School, a grades 9–12 institution with 1,122 students that operates under the highly rated Washington County Schools district.
David Crockett High School presents a mixed profile of strong advanced coursework and concerning overall trends. The school shines most brightly in accelerated mathematics: 10th graders taking Algebra II post a 79.5% proficiency rate, well above the 63.9% state average, and 9th graders in Geometry reach 81.4% proficiency. English II is another bright spot, jumping over 11 percentage points to 62.7% proficiency in 2025-2026, surpassing the state's 58.1% average. However, these subject-level wins are offset by significant gaps elsewhere. The school trails its district in all seven core All-Grades subjects, averaging 37.4% proficiency compared to the district's 45.6%, and falls below state averages in Algebra I, Algebra II, Biology I, and Geometry. This creates a stark tracking pattern where advanced students perform well while lower-level or retaking students—such as 11th graders in Geometry at just 5.3% proficiency—struggle considerably.
Attendance is the school's most pressing red flag, with 26.3% of students chronically absent compared to 17.3% in the district and 18.3% statewide. This likely contributes to the school's declining overall rank, which has slipped for three straight years from the 55th percentile (2023-2024) to the 41st percentile (2025-2026). Positively, David Crockett maintains a solid 93.4% graduation rate and a 4.9% dropout rate, both better than state averages, though the graduation rate trails its district's 95.6%. With per-student spending at $12,535, the school is not in crisis, but it must address chronic absenteeism and core subject proficiency in math and science to halt its downward ranking trend and more closely match the strength of its district.
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