✓ North Carolina Opportunity ScholarshipGrades PreK-422 students5 students per teacherChurch of ChristCo-ed
Christian schools in Durham, NC
12 in Durham or within 6 miles; schools in Durham itself count at any distance from downtown. 10 are on the state’s Opportunity 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).
✓ North Carolina Opportunity ScholarshipGrades K-1231 students5.5 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Co-ed0% to 4-year college
✓ North Carolina Opportunity ScholarshipGrades K-12182 students14.8 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Co-ed59% to 4-year college
✓ North Carolina Opportunity ScholarshipGrades K-12176 students11.4 students per teacherBaptistCo-ed50% to 4-year college
✓ North Carolina Opportunity ScholarshipGrades PreK-11200 students10.6 students per teacherBaptistCo-ed
✓ North Carolina Opportunity ScholarshipGrades PreK-12171 students11.6 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Co-ed75% to 4-year college
✓ North Carolina Opportunity ScholarshipGrades K-822 students11 students per teacherSeventh-Day AdventistCo-ed
✓ North Carolina Opportunity ScholarshipGrades PreK-12299 students12.4 students per teacherBaptistCo-ed20% to 4-year college
✓ North Carolina Opportunity ScholarshipGrades K-554 students10.8 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Co-ed
✓ North Carolina Opportunity ScholarshipGrades K-8105 students4.2 students per teacherBaptistCo-ed
Grades K-12583 students7.6 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Co-ed90% to 4-year college
Grades PreK-12477 students6.8 students per teacherFriendsCo-ed90% to 4-year college
Christian schools near Durham by the numbers
- Where
- all 12 in Durham
- Students
- about 2,322 in all; the typical school has 176
- Smallest and largest
- Five Oaks Seventh-Day Adventist Christian School, 22 students; Trinity School of Durham & Chapel Hill, 583 students
- Students per teacher
- 10.8 typical, 4.2 to 14.8 across 12 schools
- Co-ed or single-sex
- all co-ed
- Association members
- 5, most often the Association of Christian Schools International
- To a 4-year college
- 59% of graduates at the typical high school (7 reporting)
- Verified tuition
- Liberty Christian School $6,568; Trinity School of Durham & Chapel Hill $23,990
- State program
- Scholarship, $3,574 to $7,942 per student, by household income
How Opportunity Scholarship works
- Pre-K (and up)5
- Elementary (K to 5)12
- Middle (6 to 8)10
- High school (9 to 12)8
- K to 12, one school7
- Under 503
- 50 to 1492
- 150 to 2995
- 300 to 5992
- Christian schools here83%
- All of North Carolina81%
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: North Carolina Opportunity Scholarship schools, list read October 26, 2026, checked November 2, 2026.
- Award and rules: North Carolina Opportunity Scholarship, official page, read October 2, 2026.
- Tuition for 2 schools: each school’s own website, last read October 6, 2026.
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- Christian schools in Cary (14 mi)
- Christian schools in Apex (17 mi)
- Christian schools in Raleigh (18 mi)
- Christian schools in Wake Forest (22 mi)
- Christian schools in Graham (28 mi)
- Christian schools in Burlington (33 mi)
- Christian schools in Clayton (34 mi)
- Christian schools across North Carolina
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