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Covenant Academy

1079 Country Club Dr, Mc Minnville, TN 37110Open, per Google (checked Sep 20, 2026)

Key facts

Grades
K-9
Students (K-12)
65
Students per teacher
6.1
Affiliation
Christian (nondenominational)
From Mc Minnville center
6.7 miles

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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
13
Student body
Coeducational
Boys and girls
38% boys, 62% girls
Setting
Rural
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.

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Students and school year

Enrollment over time

159 2019-20 138 2021-22 65 2023-24
2019-20 to 2023-24
159 to 65, down 94 (59%)
Path
Fell in each survey (138 in 2021-22)

Students by grade, 2023-24

10 K 8 1 11 2 8 3 9 4 3 5 8 6 3 7 1 8 4 9
Largest grade
Grade 2 (11)
Smallest grade
Grade 8 (1)
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
Hours of school a year
about 1,260
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
About the median of 7 hours (373 schools we list)

How it compares

This school 6.1 TN median 8.8
Students per teacher
Students per teacher
6.1 here; median 8.8 at 171 TN combined schools

Student body, 2023-24

White 95% Black 2% Asian 2% Two or more races 2%

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

Covenant Academy tuition, and what EFS pays

Published tuition
On the school’s own tuition page (found October 11, 2026)
Award
$7,530 per student for 2026-27

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

What would you pay at Covenant Academy?

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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

SchoolGradesStudentsPer teacherAffiliationMiles
FC Boyd Sr Christian School ✓PreK-121408.1Church of Christ5
Westwood Day SchoolPreK-K77Church of Christ6
Faulkner Springs Christian School ✓3-866Seventh-Day Adventist9
Cedars of Lebanon Academy1-11193.7Christian (nondenominational)13
Woodbury Seventh-Day Adventist Elementary School ✓K-9207.7Seventh-Day Adventist13

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