Fayette Academy
PO Box 130, Somerville, TN 38068Open, per Google (checked Sep 20, 2026)
Key facts
- Tuition
- Not published
- Grades
- PreK-12
- Students (K-12)
- 528
- Students per teacher
- 9.3
- Affiliation
- Christian (nondenominational)
- From Collierville center
- 22.2 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
- 57
- Student body
- Coeducational
- Boys and girls
- 52% boys, 48% girls
- Go on to a 4-year college
- 98%
- Setting
- Rural
- Accreditation, state list
- Accredited by Cognia and Southern Association of Independent Schools (SAIS) (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
- 2019-20 to 2023-24
- 550 to 528, down 22 (4%)
- Path
- Fell in each survey (530 in 2021-22)
Students by grade, 2023-24 (pre-K is not in the K-12 count)
- Largest grade
- Grade 7 (50)
- Smallest grade
- Grade 4 (27)
- Average a grade, high school included
- About 41
The school year
- Days in the school year
- 175
- Length of the school day
- 6 hours 55 minutes
- Hours of school a year
- about 1,210
- Kindergarten
- Full day, 5 days a week
- Classes, 2023-24
- In person
- Library or media center
- Yes
- Year, against Tennessee
- 5 days shorter than the 180-day median of 372 schools we list
- School day, against Tennessee
- About the median of 7 hours (373 schools we list)
How it compares
- Students per teacher
- 9.3 here; median 8.8 at 171 TN combined schools
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.
Fayette Academy tuition, and what EFS pays
- Published tuition
- No verified figure yet. Check the school’s website
Figures read from each program’s official pages, October 2, 2026. Sources and how to apply
What would you pay at Fayette Academy?
Use $0 or more.
Tuition and fees EFS pays You pay per year Spread over 10 months
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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
| School | Grades | Students | Miles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fayette Christian School ✓ | On the state list; not in the federal survey | 3 | |
| Gallaway Christian Academy | K-11 | 14 | 15 |
| Rossville Christian Academy ✓ | PreK-12 | 371 | 16 |
| Morris Wilson Campus School | 6-12 | 87 | 18 |
| Lambs & Ivy School ✓ | PreK-1 | 9 | 21 |
| Heritage Baptist Academy ✓ | PreK-5 | 49 | 21 |
| Highland Day School | PreK-K | 9 | 21 |
| Mid-South Gifted Academy ✓ | On the state list; not in the federal survey | 21 | |
On the program’s official list Other private schools
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