Springs Public Schools Tennessee Empower Academy
198 Culbertson Street, Smyrna, TN 37167
Public charter school (tuition-free)
Springs Public Schools Tennessee Empower Academy is a public charter school in Smyrna, TN for grades K-6. It had 178 students in 2024-25. As a public charter school it charges no tuition.
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School facts
- Grades
- K-6
- Students
- 178 (2024-25)
- Level
- Elementary
- School type
- Regular public school
- Tuition
- None (public charter school)
- County
- Rutherford County
- NCES school ID
- 470369010510
From the U.S. Department of Education’s Common Core of Data: the public school directory 2025-26 (preliminary) for the address, phone, website, grades and authorizer; the 2024-25 membership and staff files for students and teachers. Figures move every year, so ask the school for today’s. NCES data files · Where our data comes from. Something wrong? Tell us.
What a charter school is
- Public and free. NCES describes a public charter school as a publicly funded school, usually run by a group or organization under a contract (the charter) with the state, the district or another body. The federal definition says a charter school does not charge tuition.
- Families choose it. Under the same definition, a charter school is one parents choose to send their children to, and it admits students by lottery when more apply than it has room for.
- No program badge. ChoiceFunded’s program badges and “schools that accept” lists cover private schools only. Charter schools are listed separately here, with no badge, and are never counted with private schools.
Sources: 20 U.S.C. 7221i (federal Charter Schools Program definitions); NCES, Condition of Education: Public Charter School Enrollment. Each state writes its own charter law, so ask the school how enrollment works there.
Other charter schools near Springs Public Schools Tennessee Empower Academy
- American Classical Academy Rutherford (K-6, 4 mi)
- Rutherford Collegiate Prep (K-7, 7 mi)
- KIPP Antioch College Prep Elementary School (K-4, 7 mi)
- KIPP Antioch College Prep Middle School (5-8, 7 mi)
- Rocketship Dream Community Prep School (K-5, 8 mi)
- Intrepid College Preparatory Charter School (5-12, 9 mi)
- KA @ The Crossings School (5-12, 9 mi)
- KIPP Antioch Global Elementary School (K-2, 9 mi)