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Centerville Christian School

1010 Lower Shipps Bend Rd, Centerville, TN 37033Open, per Google (checked Sep 20, 2026)

Key facts

Grades
K-8
Students (K-12)
27
Students per teacher
13.5
Affiliation
Seventh-Day Adventist

All school facts and where they come from

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
2
Student body
Coeducational
Boys and girls
48% boys, 52% girls
Setting
Rural
Accreditation, state list
Accredited by SDA-KTC (Tennessee Category II), per the Tennessee Department of Education approved list of non-public schools, updated September 10, 2026.

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Students and school year

Enrollment over time

3 2019-20 24 2021-22 27 2023-24
2019-20 to 2023-24
3 to 27, up 24
Path
Grew in each survey (24 in 2021-22)

Students by grade, 2023-24

2 K 5 1 1 2 6 3 4 4 2 5 1 6 4 7 2 8
Largest grade
Grade 3 (6)
Smallest grade
Grade 2 and grade 6 (1 each)
Average a grade
About 3

The school year

Days in the school year
144
Length of the school day
8 hours 30 minutes
Hours of school a year
about 1,220
Kindergarten
Full day, 4 days a week
Classes, 2023-24
In person
Library or media center
Yes
Year, against Tennessee
36 days shorter than the 180-day median of 372 schools we list
School day, against Tennessee
90 minutes longer than the median of 7 hours (373 schools we list)

How it compares

This school 13.5 TN median 8.8
Students per teacher
Students per teacher
13.5 here; median 8.8 at 114 TN elementary schools

Student body, 2023-24

White 85% Black 7% Two or more races 7%

Shares of K-12 students by race and ethnicity, as NCES reports them.

Centerville Christian School tuition, and what EFS pays

Published tuition
On the school’s own tuition page (found October 11, 2026)
Nearby schools’ prices
$6,450 to $11,910 a year, published by 2 private schools nearby. School by school
Award
$7,530 per student for 2026-27

Figures read from each program’s official pages, October 2, 2026. Sources and how to apply

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Tuition at nearby private schools

SchoolPublished tuitionYearMiles
St. Patrick Catholic School$6,4502026-2724.2
Columbia Academy$10,470 to $11,9102026-2727.2

Each figure was read on that school's own website. Ranges run from the lowest to the highest grade band.

Other private schools nearby

SchoolGradesStudentsPer teacherAffiliationMiles
The Farm School1-12416.7Other religious23
Greater Things Christian School ✓On the state list; not in the federal survey23
Zion Christian Academy ✓PreK-1246712.5Presbyterian23
St. Patrick Catholic School ✓PreK-81319.8Roman Catholic24
Columbia Academy ✓PreK-121,00314.5Church of Christ27
The Kings Daughters School-Cfa Campus3-122314.4Nonsectarian28
The Kings Daughters SchoolUngraded7410.6Nonsectarian28
Cornerstone School Tennessee Childrens Home8-12289.3Nonsectarian, all-boys29

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