Bowie Reading and Learning Center
2550 Ridgeway Rd, Memphis, TN 38119Open, per Google (checked Sep 20, 2026)
Key facts
- Tuition
- Not published
- Grades
- 1-12
- Students (K-12)
- 94
- Students per teacher
- 2.2
- Affiliation
- Nonsectarian
- From Memphis center
- 6.6 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. Check the school’s website
School facts
- Teachers
- 42
- Student body
- Coeducational
- Program
- Special education
- Boys and girls
- 70% boys, 30% girls
- Go on to a 4-year college
- 67%
- 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
Students by grade, 2023-24
- Largest grade
- Grade 11 (14)
- Smallest grade
- 3 grades (4 each)
- Across the grades
- Classes fill up toward the upper grades
- Average a grade, high school included
- About 8
- Ungraded classes
- 3 students
The school year
- Days in the school year
- 180
- Length of the school day
- 6 hours
- Hours of school a year
- about 1,080
- 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
- 60 minutes shorter than the median of 7 hours (373 schools we list)
How it compares
- Students per teacher
- 2.2 here; median 8.8 at 171 TN combined schools
- Size in Shelby County
- Larger than 21 of 47 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.
- Comparisons: the private schools ChoiceFunded lists, as of this page’s last update.
Bowie Reading and Learning Center tuition, and what EFS pays
- Published tuition
- No verified figure yet. Check the school’s website
- Nearby schools’ prices
- $8,600 to $28,980 a year, published by 3 private schools nearby. School by school
Figures read from each program’s official pages, October 2, 2026. Sources and how to apply
What would you pay at Bowie Reading and Learning Center?
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
Tuition at nearby private schools
| School | Published tuition | Year | Miles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westminister Academy | $8,600 to $18,875 | 2026-27 | 0.1 |
| Hutchison School | $25,330 to $28,980 | 2026-27 | 0.9 |
| Memphis University School | $26,800 | 2026-27 | 1.4 |
Each figure was read on that school's own website. Ranges run from the lowest to the highest grade band.
Other private schools nearby
| School | Grades | Students | Miles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westminister Academy ✓ | PreK-12 | 415 | <1 |
| Emmanuel United Methodist Kindergarten | PreK-K | 10 | <1 |
| Hutchison School ✓ | PreK-12 | 697 | <1 |
| Sensational Enlightment ✓ | PreK-5 | 42 | 1 |
| Memphis University School ✓ | 7-12 | 609 | 1 |
| Little Learners Literacy Academy ✓ | On the state list; not in the federal survey | 2 | |
| Christ Trinity Christian Academy-Site 2 | K | 5 | 2 |
| Memphis Performing Arts & Creative Academy ✓ | On the state list; not in the federal survey | 2 | |
On the program’s official list Other private schools
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