Cookeville- Crossville Area (Murfreesboro, Fairfield Glade, Monterey: real estate, theater, elementary school)

[Lutz Lady]

We are thinking of moving to the Cookeville - Crossville area in the next 6 months. Does anyone have any info about this area? How are the schools? Or are there better towns nearby to live?

[Tek_Freek]

Search this forum for those cities and try Fairfield Glade also. It's just north of Crossville.

[ssr1959]

I live right outside of Crossville. They have Christian Schools and public schools. I wish I would have lived here when my children were growing up. Everyone does for each other here. They wave and helpful with whatever you need. We have very well to-do, middle class, and poor people. I work for a builder now, and he has been very busy. People are moving here all the time from all parts of the country. Do you remember the barter system? Well that is alive and well here. Cookeville is a little more built-up than Crossville, but I don't think that will be for long. Hope this helps.

[jguillot]

Originally Posted by Lutz Lady

We are thinking of moving to the Cookeville - Crossville area in the next 6 months. Does anyone have any info about this area? How are the schools? Or are there better towns nearby to live?

Hi Lutz Lady,

Take a look at a previous thread related to Cookeville at the link below. It contains pictures that I posted of Cookeville and also information posted by JMT regarding schools in the area.

http://www.city-data.com/forum/tenne...ch-better.html

There is also an article you should check out regarding Cookeville at the link below. I hope this helps.

Retirement and Real Estate in Cookeville, Tennessee - Community Life - Best Place to Retire

[Tinman313]

Was their in June looking for a retirement, "NICE"!!! and for the schools you will need too Google it!! Looks like a good choice!!........

[TnHilltopper]

Lutz, as in Lutz, Florida near Tampa?

[JMT]

Originally Posted by Lutz Lady

We are thinking of moving to the Cookeville - Crossville area in the next 6 months. Does anyone have any info about this area? How are the schools? Or are there better towns nearby to live?

jguillot posted some good links.

The schools in Putnam County (Cookeville) are, by far, better than the schools in Cumberland County (Crossville). Cookeville High School is one of only 5 schools in the state with the International Baccalaureate Programme.

Putnam County also has an open school system meaning your kids can go to any school in the county as long as you provide the transportation (and as long as there's room). While that's not such a big deal at the elementary school level, it can be a big deal at the high school level. Cookeville HS is huge (2,400 students), but the other two high schools are smaller: Upperman HS (600 students) and Monterey HS (300 students). Some people in Cookeville send their kids to one of the smaller high schools, and some people in the more rural areas of the county send their kids to Cookeville HS. I think that helps kids enjoy their high school experiences, knowing that they have a choice of different kinds of schools.

Cookeville is a college town, Tennessee Tech University, so that provides all kinds of opportunities that you won't get in Crossville. And TTU isn't a "party" school so you don't have to worry about that kind of element. As a result of being a college town, Cookeville has more shopping, more restaurants, more art galleries, more concerts, more theater, etc., than most other towns its size.

[Sparkman]

Originally Posted by JMT

jguillot posted some good links.

The schools in Putnam County (Cookeville) are, by far, better than the schools in Cumberland County (Crossville). Cookeville High School is one of only 5 schools in the state with the International Baccalaureate Programme.

Putnam County also has an open school system meaning your kids can go to any school in the county as long as you provide the transportation (and as long as there's room). While that's not such a big deal at the elementary school level, it can be a big deal at the high school level. Cookeville HS is huge (2,400 students), but the other two high schools are smaller: Upperman HS (600 students) and Monterey HS (300 students). Some people in Cookeville send their kids to one of the smaller high schools, and some people in the more rural areas of the county send their kids to Cookeville HS. I think that helps kids enjoy their high school experiences, knowing that they have a choice of different kinds of schools.

Cookeville is a college town, Tennessee Tech University, so that provides all kinds of opportunities that you won't get in Crossville. And TTU isn't a "party" school so you don't have to worry about that kind of element. As a result of being a college town, Cookeville has more shopping, more restaurants, more art galleries, more concerts, more theater, etc., than most other towns its size.

I guess that depends on perspective. Compared to our local HS, Cookeville HS is small. Our HS will have almost 5000 kids in it in the next 2 years, 4200 now. But the quality of the schools there is one reason we are considering a move there.

[12buttons]

Originally Posted by Sparkman

I guess that depends on perspective. Compared to our local HS, Cookeville HS is small. Our HS will have almost 5000 kids in it in the next 2 years, 4200 now. But the quality of the schools there is one reason we are considering a move there.

Could you tell me what the weather is like thru the seasons? temps etc..and was this summer unusually warm there like in Murfreesboro?

[Wordy]

It was unusually warm in the latter part of the summer. Recordbreakingly so, I believe. The first part of the summer was actually milder than average, but then August came and more than made up for it. We hit 103+ on more than one occasion. Blech.