✓ Alabama CHOOSE ActGrades PreK-12141 students12.2 students per teacherBaptistCo-ed100% to 4-year college
Christian schools in Bessemer, AL
20 in Bessemer or within 12 miles. 11 are on the state’s CHOOSE Act list. Protestant and nondenominational Christian schools, going by the affiliation each school gave the federal survey (for schools new since then in Florida, the state’s private school directory).
✓ Alabama CHOOSE ActGrades K-649 students7.5 students per teacherBaptistCo-ed
✓ Alabama CHOOSE ActGrades K-1081 students8.2 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Co-ed
✓ Alabama CHOOSE ActGrades K-12371 students10.6 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Co-ed60% to 4-year college
✓ Alabama CHOOSE ActGrades PreK-845 students3.9 students per teacherBaptistCo-ed
✓ Alabama CHOOSE ActGrades K-1263 students8.6 students per teacherSeventh-Day AdventistCo-ed100% to 4-year college
✓ Alabama CHOOSE ActGrades PreK-1227 students3.6 students per teacherBaptistCo-ed100% to 4-year college
✓ Alabama CHOOSE ActGrades PreK-1250 students7.8 students per teacherBaptistCo-ed100% to 4-year college
Ephesus Academy
11 mi✓ Alabama CHOOSE ActGrades PreK-1154 students9 students per teacherSeventh-Day AdventistCo-ed
✓ Alabama CHOOSE ActGrades PreK-5151 students8.6 students per teacherPresbyterianCo-ed
✓ Alabama CHOOSE ActGrades PreK-12287 students9.9 students per teacherPresbyterianSpecial program emphasisCo-ed94% to 4-year college
Dunnams Private School
under 1 miGrades PreK-Transitional KChristian (nondenominational)Early childhoodCo-ed
Grades K-5107 students13.4 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Co-ed
Grades Transitional KPentecostalEarly childhoodCo-ed
Grades PreK-1115 students5 students per teacherPentecostalCo-ed
Grades PreK-KBaptistEarly childhoodCo-ed
Grades PreK-KMethodistEarly childhoodCo-ed
Grades PreK-KChristian (nondenominational)Early childhoodCo-ed
Grades PreK-KChristian (nondenominational)Early childhoodCo-ed
Grades PreK-KBaptistEarly childhoodCo-ed
Christian schools near Bessemer by the numbers
- Where
- 4 in Bessemer, 16 within 12 miles
- Students
- about 1,441 in all; the typical school has 63
- Smallest and largest
- Deeper Life Academy, 15 students; Restoration Academy, 371 students
- Students per teacher
- 8.6 typical, 2 to 13.4 across 18 schools
- Co-ed or single-sex
- all co-ed
- Association members
- 7, most often the Association of Christian Schools International
- To a 4-year college
- 100% of graduates at the typical high school (6 reporting)
- Verified tuition
- Restoration Academy $13,300
- State program
- Education savings account, $7,000 per student at a participating school
How CHOOSE Act works
- Pre-K (and up)13
- Elementary (K to 5)20
- Middle (6 to 8)11
- High school (9 to 12)9
- K to 12, one school6
- Under 504
- 50 to 1496
- 150 to 2992
- 300 to 5991
- Christian schools here55%
- All of Alabama73%
Where these facts come from
- Grades, size, affiliation, co-ed, membership, college-going: NCES Private School Universe Survey 2023-24, downloaded September 20, 2026.
- Program list: Alabama CHOOSE Act schools, list dated October 23, 2026, checked October 26, 2026.
- Award and rules: Alabama CHOOSE Act, official page, read October 1, 2026.
- Tuition for 1 school: each school’s own website, last read October 5, 2026.
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