Independence High, 1776 Declaration Way, Thompson's Station: grades 9-12, 2,091 students (2024-25), state grade A; zoned for north Spring Hill.

Last checked Oct. 19, 2026. Sources: ihs.wcs.edu, Williamson County Schools, the Tennessee Department of Education’s data files, the NCES school directory, the City of Spring Hill’s GIS school zone layer and the TSSAA.

Independence High School is a Williamson County Schools (WCS) high school for grades 9 to 12 in Thompson’s Station, about five miles north of central Spring Hill. It is not in Spring Hill, but on the city’s school zone map its zone covers much of the Williamson County side of the city: the Longview area, north Main Street and part of the Buckner Road area. The school’s 2026-27 profile (PDF) says it opened in fall 2004. The teams are the Eagles.

Who to call
Address 1776 Declaration Way, Thompson’s Station, TN 37179
Phone 615-472-4600
Grades 9 to 12
School day 7:40 a.m. to 2:47 p.m.
District Williamson County Schools
State letter grade, 2024-25 A

Principal

Principal Danielle Niki Patton, according to the school’s 2026-27 profile; the principal’s message on the school’s website is signed “Dr. Patton.”

Enrollment and teachers

  • Federal count: 2,097 students in the 2023-24 school year, with 117 full-time-equivalent teachers, according to the NCES directory. That works out to about 18 students per teacher.
  • State count: 2,091 students in the 2024-25 school year, in the Tennessee Department of Education’s school profile file.
  • This year: the school’s profile gives a current enrollment of 2,107, with a senior class of 467.
  • Space: WCS projected 2,120 students for the first month of 2026-27 in a building with room for 2,200, 96% full, and offered 40 open-zoned seats, in its open-zoned schools list (PDF).

State report card

Tennessee gives every public school 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,” on its school letter grades page. The grade combines four indicators scored 1 to 5: achievement, growth, growth of the highest-need students and, for high schools only, college and career readiness.

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

Indicator Score (1 to 5)
Achievement 5
Growth 5
Growth of highest-need students 5
College and career readiness 5
Overall success rate, all students, 2024-25 tests 71.0%

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

Subject Met or exceeded Valid tests
English I 55.1% 519
English II 84.5% 490
Algebra I 56.6% 389
Geometry 73.8% 461
Algebra II 76.8% 482
Biology 72.9% 512
U.S. history 77.7% 368
  • Graduation rate, class of 2025: 96.3% of a cohort of 534 students, in the state’s graduation rate file.
  • College and career readiness, 2024-25: 78.3% of graduates met the state’s readiness measure, in the letter grade file.
  • ACT, 2024-25: average composite score 24.9; 78.9% of test takers scored 21 or higher, per the state ACT file.

The full report is on the Tennessee State Report Card; search for Independence High School.

Attendance zone and feeder schools

Check any address with the WCS zoned school finder (abbreviate the street type, leave the ZIP code blank) or the district’s school zone maps. You must live in Williamson County to attend WCS. Out-of-zone requests run Feb. 4 to April 15, and out-of-zone students do not get bus service.

Inside Spring Hill, the city’s school zone layer sends three elementary zones to Independence, all through Heritage Middle in Thompson’s Station:

Heritage Middle eighth graders who live in the Summit High zone also get priority open zoning to Independence under school board policy, according to the open-zoned schools list. Outside Spring Hill, the zone stretches north into Thompson’s Station and west Franklin. Our Longview, north Main Street and Buckner Road guides list the Spring Hill subdivisions in the zone.

Calendar and bell times

From the WCS 2026-27 student calendar (PDF):

  • Tuesday, Nov. 3: Election Day, no students
  • Nov. 23-27: Thanksgiving break
  • Friday, Dec. 18: half day for students, end of the first semester
  • Dec. 21 to Jan. 4: winter break; students return Tuesday, Jan. 5
  • March 15-19, 2027: spring break

Bell times for 2026-27, from the district’s start and end times page: 7:40 a.m. to 2:47 p.m., with an 8:25 a.m. start on late-start Mondays and 11:15 a.m. dismissal on half days. The next late starts are Oct. 26, Nov. 2, Nov. 9, Nov. 16, Nov. 30 and Dec. 7.

Sports and activities

Independence plays football in Class 6A, Region 6 for 2026-27, according to the TSSAA’s current alignments, in the same region as Summit, Brentwood, Coffee County Central, Franklin, Ravenwood and Shelbyville Central. In basketball it is in Class 4A, District 12, with Columbia Central, Page and Summit.

The school’s athletics pages list football cheer, cross country, dance, football, golf, girls soccer and volleyball in the fall; boys and girls basketball, bowling, basketball cheer and wrestling in the winter; and baseball, girls flag football, boys and girls lacrosse, boys soccer, softball, tennis and track and field in the spring. Scores are on our Friday night football page and the high school scoreboard.

The profile describes a Career and Technology Preparatory program with clusters in the Academy of Justice, business marketing management, design, photography and animation, architecture and engineering design, sports health and nutrition, film and TV production, health science, and education and training, plus an Army JROTC program.

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Frequently asked questions

Is Independence High School in Spring Hill?

No. Independence is at 1776 Declaration Way in Thompson’s Station, but its zone covers the Longview and north Main Street areas of Spring Hill and part of the Buckner Road area.

What is Independence High School’s state letter grade?

Independence earned an A in Tennessee’s 2024-25 school letter grades, with a perfect overall score of 5. Its class of 2025 graduation rate was 96.3%.

Which Spring Hill schools feed into Independence High School?

Longview Elementary and Amanda H. North Elementary, through Heritage Middle, according to the city’s school zone map. Part of the Heritage Elementary zone also feeds Independence.

What time does Independence High School start?

Classes run 7:40 a.m. to 2:47 p.m. in 2026-27, with an 8:25 a.m. start on late-start Mondays, according to Williamson County Schools.