Kenwood High, 251 E. Pine Mountain Road: grades 9-12, 1,254 students this fall and a D state grade. Office: 931-905-7900.

Last checked Oct. 17, 2026. Sources: kenwoodhigh.cmcss.net, Clarksville-Montgomery County School System, Tennessee Department of Education data files, NCES school directory and the TSSAA.

Kenwood High School is a CMCSS high school for grades 9 to 12 on East Pine Mountain Road in Clarksville, next door to Kenwood Middle School, which shares its attendance zone.

Who to call
Address 251 E. Pine Mountain Road, Clarksville, TN 37042
Phone 931-905-7900
Grades 9 to 12
School day 7:30 a.m. to 2:25 p.m.
District Clarksville-Montgomery County School System (CMCSS)
Students, Oct. 17, 2026 1,254
State letter grade, 2024-25 D

Principal

Principal Nigel Anderson, according to the school’s staff directory.

Enrollment and teachers

  • This fall: 1,254 students on Oct. 17, 2026, day 44 of the school year, in the district’s enrollment count.
  • State count: 1,238 students in the 2024-25 school year, in the Tennessee Department of Education’s school profile file.
  • Federal count: 1,311 students in the 2023-24 school year, with 66 full-time-equivalent teachers, according to the NCES directory. That works out to about 20 students per teacher.

State report card

Tennessee gives most public schools an A-F letter grade. The Department of Education says the grades are meant “to provide a snapshot of how each school performed during the previous academic year,” according to its school letter grades page. The grade combines indicators scored from 1 to 5: student achievement, academic growth, growth of the highest-need students and, for high schools, college and career readiness.

Kenwood High earned a D for 2024-25, the latest grades published, with an overall score of 2.3 out of 5 in the state’s letter grade file.

Indicator Score (1 to 5)
Achievement 3
Growth 1
Growth of highest-need students 3
College and career readiness 2
Overall success rate, all students, 2024-25 tests 25.1%

Spring 2026 TCAP tests (share of students who met or exceeded expectations, all grades, from the state’s 2026 school assessment file):

Subject Met or exceeded Valid tests
English I 17.4% 340
English II 48.2% 282
Algebra I 19.7% 320
Geometry 35.9% 309
Algebra II 32.1% 271
Biology 42.5% 266
U.S. history 42.8% 243
  • Graduation rate, class of 2025: 90.9% of a cohort of 320 students, in the state’s graduation rate file.
  • ACT, 2024-25: average composite score 16.7; 16.9% of 267 test takers scored 21 or higher, per the state ACT file.

The full report, with chronic absence and subgroup results, is on the Tennessee State Report Card; search for Kenwood High by name.

Attendance zone and feeder schools

Check any address with the district’s bus and zoning lookup, or open the 2026-27 elementary zone map (PDF) and middle and high school zone map (PDF). Students attend their zoned school; a transfer needs a Special Request for Transfer approved by Student Services or an Open Enrollment application, and transfer students do not get bus service, according to the bus and zoning page.

Kenwood High and Kenwood Middle share one zone on the district’s 2026-27 middle and high school zone map (PDF). In the elementary rezoning plan the school board approved in January 2024 (the feeder diagram in the final rezoning presentation (PDF)), Byrns L. Darden Elementary, Glenellen Elementary, Kenwood Elementary, Ringgold Elementary and West Creek Elementary feed into this zone, some of them only in part.

For 2026-27, CMCSS offered open-enrollment seats at Kenwood High in 11th and 12th grades (10 seats each), with the building at 79% of capacity; a lottery is held if requests outnumber seats, according to the district’s application page.

Calendar and bell times

From the board-approved CMCSS 2026-27 calendar (PDF):

  • Tuesday, Nov. 3: staff development, no school for students
  • Wednesday, Nov. 11: Veterans Day, no school
  • Nov. 23-27: Thanksgiving break
  • Thursday, Dec. 17: half day for students, end of the second nine weeks
  • Dec. 18 to Jan. 4: winter break; students return Wednesday, Jan. 6
  • March 15-19, 2027: spring break

Bell times, from the district’s list of schools: regular days run 7:30 a.m. to 2:25 p.m., and half days 7:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.

Sports and activities

Kenwood High plays football in Class 5A, Region 7 for 2026-27, according to the TSSAA’s current alignments, with Dickson County, Henry County, Kirkwood, Northeast and Northwest. In basketball it is in Class 4A, District 14, with Dickson County, Henry County, Northwest and West Creek.

The school’s athletics page lists baseball, boys and girls basketball, bowling, cheerleading, boys and girls cross country, football, girls flag football, boys and girls golf, boys and girls soccer, softball, boys and girls tennis, boys and girls track and field, volleyball and wrestling.

Programs

Kenwood High is home to the Engineering and Design Academy, one of the CMCSS college and career academies, which the district describes as schools within a school built around a career theme. Incoming ninth graders apply; for 2026-27 the window ran Jan. 15 to Feb. 15, 2026, according to the district’s application page.

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Frequently asked questions

What grades does Kenwood High School serve?

Kenwood High serves grades 9 to 12. It is a Clarksville-Montgomery County School System school at 251 E. Pine Mountain Road in Clarksville.

What is Kenwood High’s state letter grade?

Kenwood High earned a D in Tennessee’s 2024-25 school letter grades, with an overall score of 2.3 out of 5. Its class of 2025 graduation rate was 90.9%.

What classification is Kenwood High in for football?

Kenwood High plays in Class 5A, Region 7, in the TSSAA’s 2026-27 football alignment.

What time does Kenwood High start?

CMCSS lists Kenwood High’s regular day as 7:30 a.m. to 2:25 p.m., and half days as 7:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.