Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 4
Jere Whitson Elementary, Cookeville, TN
CEP schoolJere Whitson Elementary is a public elementary school in Cookeville, part of Putnam County Public Schools. It enrolled 339 students in 2024-25.
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 339
- Grades
- PK to 4
School details
- Address
- 178 East Jere Whitson RD, Cookeville, TN 38501
- Phone
- (931)526-6575
- District
- Putnam County Public Schools
- County
- Putnam County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Town: Remote
- NCES school ID
- 470348001453
School meals
Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
- Direct certification
- 225Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- Yes (CEP school)
Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.
Related schools
Other elementary schools in Putnam County Public Schools
- Prescott South Elementary 535 students
- Burks Elementary 515 students
- Capshaw Elementary 515 students
- Algood Elementary 495 students
- Northeast Elementary 459 students
- Cane Creek Elementary 447 students
- Park View School 416 students
- Cornerstone Elementary 378 students
- Sycamore Elementary 337 students
- Baxter Primary 327 students
Elementary schools elsewhere in Cookeville
- Dodson Branch Elementary Jackson County Public Schools
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.