Northwest High School, Clarksville: zone, report card and calendar

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

Northwest High School is a CMCSS high school for grades 9 to 12 on Lafayette Road in Clarksville. Its attendance zone is shared with New Providence Middle School.

Who to call

• Front office: 931-648-5675, 800 Lafayette Road, Clarksville, TN 37042
• School website: northwesthigh.cmcss.net
• Enrolling a new student: the CMCSS Enrollment Center, 931-542-5078, 430 Greenwood Ave., or start online through the district registration page
• Buses: CMCSS Transportation, 931-358-4089; this school’s buses run from Liberty dispatch, 931-820-1515, according to the bus and zoning page
• District office: 931-648-5600, 621 Gracey Ave.

Principal

Principal Brandi Blackley, according to the school’s staff directory.

Enrollment and teachers

• This fall: 1,347 students on Oct. 17, 2026, day 44 of the school year, in the district’s enrollment count.
• State count: 1,441 students in the 2024-25 school year, in the Tennessee Department of Education’s school profile file.
• Federal count: 1,432 students in the 2023-24 school year, with 74 full-time-equivalent teachers, according to the NCES directory. That works out to about 19 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.

Northwest High earned a B for 2024-25, the latest grades published, with an overall score of 4.3 out of 5 in the state’s letter grade file.

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

• Graduation rate, class of 2025: 95.4% of a cohort of 347 students, in the state’s graduation rate file.
• ACT, 2024-25: average composite score 18.1; 29.2% of 315 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 Northwest 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.

Northwest High and New Providence 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)), Liberty Elementary and Minglewood Elementary feed into this zone, some of them only in part.

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 11:05 a.m.

Sports and activities

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

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

Programs

Northwest High is home to the Health Sciences 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.

More on Clarksville schools

• The school’s website and the CMCSS list of high schools
• Every public school in Clarksville
• Our Clarksville schools guide for enrollment documents, the full calendar and school board meetings
• Friday night football and the high school scoreboard

Frequently asked questions

What grades does Northwest High School serve?

Northwest High serves grades 9 to 12. It is a Clarksville-Montgomery County School System school at 800 Lafayette Road in Clarksville.

What is Northwest High’s state letter grade?

Northwest High earned a B in Tennessee’s 2024-25 school letter grades, with an overall score of 4.3 out of 5. Its class of 2025 graduation rate was 95.4%.

What classification is Northwest High in for football?

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

What time does Northwest High start?

CMCSS lists Northwest High’s regular day as 7:30 a.m. to 2:25 p.m., and half days as 7:30 a.m. to 11:05 a.m.