Central Baptist School
5470 Raleigh Lagrange Rd, Memphis, TN 38134Open, per Google (checked Sep 20, 2026)
Key facts
- Tuition
- On the school’s website
- Grades
- K-12
- Students (K-12)
- 160
- Students per teacher
- 8
- Affiliation
- Baptist
- From Memphis center
- 7.3 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
- 21
- Student body
- Coeducational
- Boys and girls
- 53% boys, 47% girls
- Go on to a 4-year college
- 88%
- Setting
- City
- Member of
- American Association of Christian Schools, Association Montessori International
- Accreditation, state list
- Approved in Tennessee under Categories II, III and IV, which includes accreditation by an agency the State Board of Education authorizes, per the Tennessee Department of Education approved list of non-public schools, updated September 10, 2026. The list names Cognia and Tennessee Association of Christian Schools (TACS).
- 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
- 2019-20 to 2023-24
- 123 to 160, up 37 (30%)
Students by grade, 2023-24
- Largest grade
- Grade 9 (20)
- Smallest grade
- Grade 7 (6)
- Average a grade, high school included
- About 12
The school year
- Days in the school year
- 180
- Length of the school day
- 7 hours 30 minutes
- Hours of school a year
- about 1,350
- 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
- 30 minutes longer than the median of 7 hours (373 schools we list)
How it compares
- Students per teacher
- 8 here; median 8.8 at 171 TN combined schools
- Size in Shelby County
- Larger than 26 of 47 other schools we list
- 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.
Central Baptist School tuition, and what EFS pays
- Published tuition
- On the school’s own tuition page (found October 11, 2026)
- Nearby schools’ prices
- $8,400 to $18,900 a year, published by 2 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 Central Baptist School?
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pleasant View School | $8,400 to $9,250 | 2026-27 | 0.8 |
| Christian Brothers High School | $18,900 | 2026-27 | 4.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pleasant View School ✓ | PreK-12 | 475 | <1 |
| Immanuel Lutheran School ✓ | PreK-8 | 136 | 2 |
| Pure Academy ✓ | On the state list; not in the federal survey | 3 | |
| Memphis Junior Academy ✓ | PreK-10 | 81 | 4 |
| Breath of Life Preparatory Academy ✓ | On the state list; not in the federal survey | 4 | |
| Breath of Life Academy ✓ | K-3 | 40 | 4 |
| Christian Brothers High School ✓ | 9-12 | 702 | 4 |
| St. Agnes Academy-St. Dominic School ✓ | PreK-12 | 675 | 4 |
On the program’s official list Other private schools
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