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A downtown public magnet housed in a 1912 Gothic Revival building on Broadway, Hume-Fogg is consistently ranked the top public high school in Tennessee — proof that a great zoned-district alternative doesn't have to mean a private-school tuition bill.

(615) 291-6300

A 7-12 academic magnet a couple miles west of downtown that regularly trades places with Hume-Fogg for the title of Tennessee's best public high school — and has been recognized nationally as one of the strongest public schools in the country.

(615) 329-8400

Davidson County's public district, serving roughly 81,000 students across 160 schools — the 49th-largest system in the country and the one that determines your zoned school the moment you buy inside Nashville's city limits.

(615) 259-4636

An independent K-12 day school on Edgehill Avenue whose lineage runs back to 1888, USN is the private school Nashville families most often mention in the same breath as the city's top public magnets — and Niche's #2-ranked private high school in Tennessee.

(615) 321-8000

The district that anchors Nashville's southern suburbs — Franklin, Brentwood, Nolensville, Thompson's Station, and part of Spring Hill — and the reason so many relocating families narrow their home search to Williamson County before looking at anything else.

(615) 472-4000