✓ North Carolina Opportunity ScholarshipGrades K-121,029 students12 students per teacherPresbyterianCo-ed100% to 4-year college
Christian schools in Matthews, NC
10 in Matthews or within 6 miles; schools in Matthews itself count at any distance from downtown. 9 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-121,144 students10 students per teacherBaptistCo-ed
✓ North Carolina Opportunity ScholarshipGrades PreK-12160 students8.5 students per teacherBaptistCo-ed100% to 4-year college
✓ North Carolina Opportunity ScholarshipGrades K-121,239 students11.9 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Co-ed99% to 4-year college
✓ North Carolina Opportunity ScholarshipGrades PreK-121,200 students13.4 students per teacherBaptistCo-ed98% to 4-year college
✓ North Carolina Opportunity ScholarshipGrades PreK-12110 students4.4 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Co-ed100% to 4-year college
✓ North Carolina Opportunity ScholarshipGrades K-1260 students7.5 students per teacherBaptistCo-ed100% to 4-year college
✓ North Carolina Opportunity ScholarshipGrades K-888 studentsSeventh-Day AdventistCo-ed
✓ North Carolina Opportunity ScholarshipGrades PreK-12266 students8 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Co-ed100% to 4-year college
Grades 2-12Under 10 K-12 studentsBaptistCo-ed0% to 4-year college
Christian schools near Matthews by the numbers
- Where
- 4 in Matthews, 6 within 6 miles
- Students
- about 5,305 in all; the typical school has 266
- Smallest and largest
- Abundant Life Christian Academy, 60 students; Charlotte Christian School, 1,239 students
- Students per teacher
- 8.5 typical, 2.7 to 13.4 across 9 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
- 100% of graduates at the typical high school (8 reporting)
- Verified tuition
- Covenant Day School $15,490; Charlotte Christian School $23,295; Metrolina Christian Academy $9,461; Arborbrook Christian Academy $10,764
- State program
- Scholarship, $3,574 to $7,942 per student, by household income
How Opportunity Scholarship works
- Pre-K (and up)4
- Elementary (K to 5)10
- Middle (6 to 8)10
- High school (9 to 12)9
- K to 12, one school8
- 50 to 1493
- 150 to 2992
- 300 to 5990
- 600 or more4
- Christian schools here90%
- 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 4 schools: each school’s own website, last read October 6, 2026.
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