✓ Alabama CHOOSE ActGrades PreK-1293 students5.7 students per teacherBaptistCo-ed100% to 4-year college
Christian schools in Birmingham, AL
17 in Birmingham or within 6 miles; schools in Birmingham itself count at any distance from downtown. 9 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 PreK-12659 students9.1 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Co-ed70% to 4-year college
Ephesus Academy
4 mi✓ Alabama CHOOSE ActGrades PreK-1154 students9 students per teacherSeventh-Day AdventistCo-ed
✓ Alabama CHOOSE ActGrades PreK-845 students3.9 students per teacherBaptistCo-ed
✓ Alabama CHOOSE ActGrades K-826 students5.2 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Co-ed
✓ Alabama CHOOSE ActGrades K-1081 students8.2 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Co-ed
Banks Academy
8 mi✓ Alabama CHOOSE ActGrades 6-12125 students20.8 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Co-ed31% to 4-year college
✓ Alabama CHOOSE ActGrades PreK-121,552 students11.2 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Co-ed80% to 4-year college
✓ Alabama CHOOSE ActGrades K-1271 students6.6 students per teacherBaptistCo-ed0% to 4-year college
Grades 6-12123 students11.6 students per teacherBaptistCo-ed83% to 4-year college
Grades PreK-638 students5.1 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Co-ed
Grades PreK-Transitional KChristian (nondenominational)Early childhoodCo-ed
Grades PreK-413 students4.3 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Co-ed
Grades PreK-KPresbyterianEarly childhoodCo-ed
Grades PreK-559 students9.8 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Co-ed
Grades K-121,185 students19.8 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Co-ed25% to 4-year college
Grades 9-1243 students11.9 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Special program emphasisCo-ed
Christian schools near Birmingham by the numbers
- Where
- all 17 in Birmingham
- Students
- about 4,167 in all; the typical school has 71
- Smallest and largest
- Integrity Christian Academy, 13 students; Briarwood Christian School, 1,552 students
- Students per teacher
- 9 typical, 2 to 26.7 across 17 schools
- Co-ed or single-sex
- all co-ed
- Association members
- 8, most often the Association of Christian Schools International
- To a 4-year college
- 70% of graduates at the typical high school (7 reporting)
- Verified tuition
- Glen Iris Baptist School $5,650; Cornerstone Schools of Alabama $11,000
- State program
- Education savings account, $7,000 per student at a participating school
How CHOOSE Act works
- Pre-K (and up)9
- Elementary (K to 5)14
- Middle (6 to 8)12
- High school (9 to 12)10
- K to 12, one school5
- Under 505
- 50 to 1497
- 150 to 2990
- 300 to 5990
- 600 or more3
- Christian schools here53%
- 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 2 schools: each school’s own website, last read October 11, 2026.
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- Private schools with pre-K in Birmingham
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- Christian schools in Hoover (11 mi)
- Christian schools in Bessemer (15 mi)
- Christian schools in Helena (18 mi)
- Christian schools in Alabaster (22 mi)
- Christian schools in Tuscaloosa (47 mi)
- Christian schools in Gadsden (56 mi)
- Christian schools in Prattville (77 mi)
- Christian schools across Alabama
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