✓ Alabama CHOOSE ActGrades PreK-12276 students11.1 students per teacherBaptistCo-ed75% to 4-year college
Christian schools in Gardendale, AL
14 in Gardendale or within 12 miles. 5 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).
Banks Academy
9 mi✓ Alabama CHOOSE ActGrades 6-12125 students20.8 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Co-ed31% to 4-year college
✓ Alabama CHOOSE ActGrades K-826 students5.2 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Co-ed
✓ Alabama CHOOSE ActGrades PreK-12659 students9.1 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Co-ed70% to 4-year college
✓ Alabama CHOOSE ActGrades K-1271 students6.6 students per teacherBaptistCo-ed0% to 4-year college
Grades PreK-KMethodistEarly childhoodCo-ed
Grades PreK-KBaptistEarly childhoodCo-ed
Grades PreK-559 students9.8 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Co-ed
Grades PreK-413 students4.3 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Co-ed
Grades PreK-Transitional KChristian (nondenominational)Early childhoodCo-ed
Grades PreK-638 students5.1 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Co-ed
Grades 9-1243 students11.9 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Special program emphasisCo-ed
Grades 6-12123 students11.6 students per teacherBaptistCo-ed83% to 4-year college
Grades PreK-KBaptistEarly childhoodCo-ed
Christian schools near Gardendale by the numbers
- Where
- 2 in Gardendale, 12 within 12 miles
- Students
- about 1,433 in all; the typical school has 71
- Smallest and largest
- Integrity Christian Academy, 13 students; Cornerstone Schools of Alabama, 659 students
- Students per teacher
- 9.1 typical, 2 to 20.8 across 13 schools
- Co-ed or single-sex
- all co-ed
- Association members
- 5, most often the American Association of Christian Schools
- To a 4-year college
- 70% of graduates at the typical high school (5 reporting)
- Verified tuition
- Tabernacle Christian School $6,450; 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)8
- Elementary (K to 5)11
- Middle (6 to 8)7
- High school (9 to 12)6
- K to 12, one school3
- Under 504
- 50 to 1494
- 150 to 2991
- 300 to 5990
- 600 or more1
- Christian schools here36%
- 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 6, 2026.
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