John Overton Comprehensive High School is a public high school located in Nashville, Tennessee. It is named after prominent Judge John Overton , advisor to President Andrew Jackson. The school opened in September 1958 and was renovated and expanded in 1995. The school has won fourteen state championships.AcademicsOverton is a school of expanding academic courses. Numerous honors and Advanced Placement (AP) courses are offered at Overton. Recent AP class offerings were available in Calculus (AB & BC), Statistics, Biology, Art History, Music Theory, English Language, English Literature, World History, US History, European History, US Government, and Macroeconomics.According to U.S. News & World Report, in 2014 the school possessed a 20:1 student teacher ratio with 1,868 students and 92 teachers. Sixty-three percent of students where classified as "minority" and sixty-five percent were considered "economically disadvantaged". Fifty-one percent of students were considered proficient in English and thirty percent proficient in Algebra. These numbers are compared with the district average of fifty-six percent and forty-five percent, respectively.