Christian schools in Decatur, IN
7 in Decatur or within 12 miles. 3 are on the state’s Choice Scholarship 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).
✓ Indiana Choice ScholarshipGrades PreK-1270 students6.1 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Co-ed60% to 4-year college
✓ Indiana Choice ScholarshipGrades PreK-863 students10.7 students per teacherLutheran Church (Missouri Synod)Co-ed
✓ Indiana Choice ScholarshipGrades PreK-885 students7.4 students per teacherLutheran Church (Missouri Synod)Co-ed
Zion Lutheran School
under 1 miGrades PreK-875 students12.3 students per teacherLutheran Church (Missouri Synod)Co-ed
Oak Grove School
9 miGrades 1-846 students19.2 students per teacherAmishCo-ed
Grades K-855 students10 students per teacherLutheran Church (Missouri Synod)Co-ed
Shady Lane School
10 miGrades 1-839 students19.5 students per teacherAmishCo-ed
Christian schools near Decatur by the numbers
- Where
- 3 in Decatur, 4 within 12 miles
- Students
- about 433 in all; the typical school has 63
- Smallest and largest
- Shady Lane School, 39 students; St. John-Emmanuel Lutheran School, 85 students
- Students per teacher
- 10.7 typical, 6.1 to 19.5 across 7 schools
- Co-ed or single-sex
- all co-ed
- Association members
- 1, the Association of Classical and Christian Schools
- State program
- Scholarship, about $6,000 to $8,300, set by your home school district
How Choice Scholarship works
- Pre-K (and up)4
- Elementary (K to 5)7
- Middle (6 to 8)7
- High school (9 to 12)1
- K to 12, one school1
- Under 502
- 50 to 1495
- Christian schools here43%
- All of Indiana66%
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: Indiana Choice Scholarship schools, list read October 26, 2026, checked October 28, 2026.
- Award and rules: Indiana Choice Scholarship, official page, read October 1, 2026.
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