Crieve Hall Elementary vs John B. Whitsitt Elementary

John B. Whitsitt Elementary ranks #29 of 1,785 Tennessee schools, placing it 21 spots ahead of Crieve Hall Elementary at #50 — both well inside the top 3% statewide. The overall rating gap is narrow: Whitsitt holds a 9.2/10 against Crieve Hall's 9.0/10, a 0.2-point difference that masks sharper divergence underneath the surface scores.

The academic and growth profiles of these two schools point in opposite directions. Crieve Hall Elementary earns a 9.8/10 academic score versus Whitsitt's 8.1 — a 1.7-point gap indicating meaningfully higher tested proficiency at Crieve Hall. Whitsitt flips that advantage on growth: its 9.8/10 growth score outpaces Crieve Hall's 8.4 by 1.4 points, meaning students at Whitsitt are advancing faster relative to their starting points regardless of where those baselines sit. Parents weighing current achievement levels against year-over-year learning velocity will find a clear trade-off between these two schools.

Enrollment at both schools is nearly identical — Crieve Hall Elementary at 499 students and John B. Whitsitt Elementary at 504 — so neither campus is materially larger or more intimate than the other. Crieve Hall's student-teacher ratio of 14.3:1 edges out Whitsitt's 15.3:1, meaning roughly one fewer student per teacher on average. That one-student difference is modest but consistent with Crieve Hall's higher academic output.

The most concrete structural difference is grade span: John B. Whitsitt Elementary serves grades PK–05, offering a pre-kindergarten entry point that Crieve Hall Elementary — which begins at kindergarten — does not provide. For families with a four-year-old ready to start school, Whitsitt is the only option of the two. The schools sit 3.6 miles apart within Nashville, making both accessible to families across the same general corridor of the city.