Akiva School
809 Percy Warner Blvd, Nashville, TN 37205Open, per Google (checked Sep 20, 2026)
Key facts
- Tuition
- On the school’s website
- Grades
- K-6
- Students (K-12)
- 114
- Students per teacher
- 4.3
- Affiliation
- Jewish
- From Nashville center
- 8.4 miles
Can you use EFS here?
✓ On the official Tennessee Education Freedom Scholarship list
- State list
- Includes this school
- Applying
- For 2026-27, renewals opened December 9, 2025 and new applications opened January 13, 2026. The window closed February 6, 2026 at 4 p.m. Central, the department’s applications page and its February 20, 2026 announcement say; its 2026-27 FAQ, dated December 22, 2025 and not updated since, still gives January 30, 2026. Dates for 2027-28 are not posted yet.
Source: the official list, dated August 24, 2026.
What you would pay here
- Net cost
- Not worked out: no verified 2026-27 tuition yet. See the school’s tuition page
School facts
- Teachers
- 28
- Student body
- Coeducational
- Boys and girls
- 49% boys, 51% girls
- Setting
- City
- Accreditation, state list
- Accredited by Cognia (Tennessee Category III), per the Tennessee Department of Education approved list of non-public schools, updated September 10, 2026.
- Accreditation: the state’s list.
- School facts, kindergarten to grade 12: U.S. Department of Education, NCES Private School Survey 2023-24, read September 20, 2026.
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Students and school year
Enrollment over time
- 2021-22 to 2023-24
- 94 to 114, up 20 (21%)
Students by grade, 2023-24
- Largest grade
- Grade 3 (23)
- Smallest grade
- Grade 6 (8)
- Across the grades
- Classes thin out toward the upper grades
The school year
- Days in the school year
- 180
- Length of the school day
- 7 hours 35 minutes
- Hours of school a year
- about 1,360
- Kindergarten
- Full day, 5 days a week
- Classes, 2023-24
- In person
- Library or media center
- Yes
- Year, against Tennessee
- Same as the median of the 372 private schools we list
- School day, against Tennessee
- 35 minutes longer than the median of 7 hours (373 schools we list)
How it compares
- Students per teacher
- 4.3 here; median 8.8 at 114 TN elementary schools
- Size in Davidson County
- Larger than 18 of 49 other schools we list
Student body, 2023-24
Shares of K-12 students by race and ethnicity, as NCES reports them.
- Grades, school year and student body: U.S. Department of Education, NCES Private School Survey 2023-24, read September 20, 2026.
- Earlier counts: NCES Private School Survey 2019-20 and 2021-22, read October 14, 2026.
- Comparisons: the private schools ChoiceFunded lists, as of this page’s last update.
Akiva School tuition, and what EFS pays
- Published tuition
- On the school’s own tuition page (found October 11, 2026)
Figures read from each program’s official pages, October 2, 2026. Sources and how to apply
What would you pay at Akiva School?
Use $0 or more.
Tuition and fees EFS pays You pay per year Spread over 10 months
- Ask the school
- Its full-year tuition and required fees; whether it still takes Education Freedom Scholarship for 2026-27; its application deadline. More questions to ask
Other private schools nearby
| School | Grades | Students | Miles |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. Henry School ✓ | On the state list; not in the federal survey | <1 | |
| Abintra Montessori School ✓ | PreK-8 | 83 | 2 |
| Christ Presbyterian Academy ✓ | On the state list; not in the federal survey | 3 | |
| Nashville International Academy ✓ | PreK-11 | 179 | 3 |
| Nashville Christian School ✓ | PreK-12 | 700 | 3 |
| Harpeth Hall School | 5-12 | 724 | 3 |
| Casa Dei Montessori | K-5 | 28 | 4 |
| The Covenant School ✓ | PreK-6 | 162 | 4 |
On the program’s official list Other private schools
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