First Assembly Christian School
8650 Walnut Grove Rd, Cordova, TN 38018Open, per Google (checked Sep 20, 2026)
Key facts
- Tuition
- On the school’s website
- Grades
- PreK-12
- Students (K-12)
- 503
- Students per teacher
- 10.1
- Affiliation
- Christian (nondenominational)
- From Cordova center
- 1.8 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
- 50
- Student body
- Coeducational
- Go on to a 4-year college
- 95%
- 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
Enrollment over time
- 2021-22 to 2023-24
- 481 to 503, up 22 (5%)
Students by grade, 2023-24 (pre-K is not in the K-12 count)
- Largest grade
- Grade 10 (60)
- Smallest grade
- Grade 1 (23)
- Across the grades
- Classes fill up toward the upper grades
- High school grades
- Average 53; lower grades 32
The school year
- Days in the school year
- 175
- Length of the school day
- 7 hours
- Hours of school a year
- about 1,230
- 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
- 10.1 here; median 8.8 at 171 TN combined schools
- Size in Shelby County
- Larger than 37 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.
- 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.
First Assembly Christian School tuition, and what EFS pays
- Published tuition
- On the school’s own tuition page (found October 11, 2026)
Figures read from each program’s official pages, October 2, 2026. Sources and how to apply
What would you pay at First Assembly Christian School?
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
Other private schools nearby
| School | Grades | Students | Miles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lamplighter Montessori School ✓ | On the state list; not in the federal survey | 2 | |
| Cadance Academy Preschool | PreK-2 | 20 | 2 |
| Briarcrest Christian School ✓ | On the state list; not in the federal survey | 2 | |
| Evangelical Christian School-Lower School Branch | PreK-3 | 215 | 2 |
| Evangelical Christain School ✓ | PreK-12 | 841 | 3 |
| Highland Day School | PreK-K | 9 | 3 |
| Heritage Baptist Academy ✓ | PreK-5 | 49 | 3 |
| Lambs & Ivy School ✓ | PreK-1 | 9 | 3 |
On the program’s official list Other private schools
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