This annual report from the Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth provides data points to help us determine how our children are doing. It’s not a pretty picture.

Here are some low lights:

• 20% of Tennessee children live below the poverty line.
• Infant daycare in Tennessee costs more than tuition and nearly all of Tennessee’s public universities.
• Tennessee’s public schools need $87 million in infrastructure improvements to comply with state and federal laws.
• Tennessee children are much more likely to die from a firearm than a car accident, cancer, or poisoning.
• Nearly 1 out of every four Tennessee high school students seriously considered suicide in the last 12 months.

The information above is merely the summary. The full report can be viewed here.

Source: The State of the Child in Tennessee 2024 (Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth, 2024).

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