Franklin Christian Academy
PO Box 682712, Franklin, TN 37068Open, per Google (checked Sep 20, 2026)
Key facts
- Tuition
- From $20,000
- Grades
- 5-12
- Students (K-12)
- 379
- Students per teacher
- 14.4
- Affiliation
- Christian (nondenominational)
- From Franklin center
- 3.6 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
- Tuition verified for an unstated year; the 2026-27 award is subtracted only from a 2026-27 price. See the school’s tuition
School facts
- Teachers
- 29
- Student body
- Coeducational
- Boys and girls
- 51% boys, 49% girls
- Go on to a 4-year college
- 80%
- Setting
- Rural
- Member of
- Association of Christian Schools International
- 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
- 2019-20 to 2023-24
- 198 to 379, up 181 (91%)
- Path
- Grew in each survey (275 in 2021-22)
Students by grade, 2023-24
- Largest grade
- Grade 7 (68)
- Smallest grade
- Grade 5 (23)
- Average a grade, high school included
- About 47
The school year
- Days in the school year
- 180
- Length of the school day
- 6 hours 55 minutes
- Hours of school a year
- about 1,250
- Classes, 2023-24
- In person
- Library or media center
- No
- 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
- Students per teacher
- 14.4 here; median 8.8 at 171 TN combined schools
- Size in Williamson County
- Larger than 9 of 12 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.
Franklin Christian Academy tuition, and what EFS pays
- Grades K to 5
- $20,000
- Grades 6 to 8
- $20,000
- Grades 9 to 12
- $22,000
Tuition from Franklin Christian Academy's website, checked October 5, 2026.
Figures read from each program’s official pages, October 2, 2026. Sources and how to apply
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Other private schools nearby
| School | Grades | Students | Miles |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Hope Academy ✓ | PreK-6 | 193 | 1 |
| Trinitas Classical Academy | PreK-12 | 89 | 2 |
| Generations Christian Academy | K-10 | 134 | 2 |
| Montessori School of Franklin ✓ | PreK-4 | 28 | 3 |
| Grace Christian Academy ✓ | PreK-12 | 833 | 4 |
| Harpeth Montessori | PreK-5 | 45 | 4 |
| Primrose School of Cool Springs | PreK-Transitional K | 12 | 4 |
| Galileo Preparatory Academy ✓ | On the state list; not in the federal survey | 5 | |
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