Hume - Fogg High vs Early College High School

Early College High School ranks #28 of 1,785 Tennessee high schools while Hume-Fogg High ranks #65 of the same pool — a 37-position gap despite both sitting in the top 4% statewide. The overall rating difference is narrow: Early College High School scores 9.3/10 against Hume-Fogg High's 9.0/10, a 0.3-point margin that masks sharper divergence in how each school earns its standing.

Academically, the two schools are nearly identical: Hume-Fogg High posts a 10.0/10 academic score and Early College High School a 9.9/10, a negligible difference suggesting comparable proficiency outcomes. The real separation lives in growth. Early College High School earns a perfect 10.0/10 growth score; Hume-Fogg High scores 8.1/10 — a 1.9-point gap indicating that students at Early College High School are advancing relative to academic expectations at a measurably faster rate than their Hume-Fogg peers, even though both enter with similarly strong baseline proficiency.

The structural differences between the two campuses are significant. Hume-Fogg High enrolls 893 students against Early College High School's 160 — a 5.6x difference in size. That scale gap is reinforced by student-teacher ratios: 19.0:1 at Hume-Fogg High versus 13.3:1 at Early College High School, meaning Early College students see roughly 30% more teacher attention per seat. Both schools serve grades 9 through 12, so the comparison spans the same academic window.

Both campuses are traditional four-year high schools located 4.5 miles apart in Nashville. Hume-Fogg High operates as a larger, selective academic magnet with a near-perfect academic score that reflects strong aggregate proficiency across a broader student body. Early College High School's name signals its primary program distinction — a college-credit pathway model consistent with its exceptional growth score and small cohort structure.