Gateway Academy at the Learning Lab
5500 Maryland Way Ste 110, Brentwood, TN 37027Open, per Google (checked Sep 20, 2026)
Key facts
- Tuition
- Not published
- Grades
- 2-12
- Students (K-12)
- 26
- Affiliation
- Nonsectarian
- From Brentwood center
- 3.9 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
- 22
- Student body
- Coeducational
- Boys and girls
- 58% boys, 42% girls
- Go on to a 4-year college
- 0%
- Setting
- Suburb
- 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
- 23 to 26, up 3 (13%)
- Path
- Peaked at 30 in 2021-22
Students by grade, 2023-24
- Largest grade
- Grade 11 (7)
- Smallest grade
- 4 grades (1 each)
- Across the grades
- Classes fill up toward the upper grades
- High school grades
- Average 4; lower grades 2
- Ungraded classes
- 2 students
The school year
- Days in the school year
- 180
- Length of the school day
- 6 hours 30 minutes
- Hours of school a year
- about 1,170
- Classes, 2023-24
- In person, virtual and hybrid
- 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 shorter than the median of 7 hours (373 schools we list)
How it compares
- Size in Williamson County
- Larger than 2 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.
Gateway Academy at the Learning Lab tuition, and what EFS pays
- Published tuition
- No verified figure yet. Check the school’s website
- Nearby schools’ prices
- $26,225 to $53,100 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 Gateway Academy at the Learning Lab?
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
Tuition at nearby private schools
| School | Published tuition | Year | Miles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Currey Ingram Academy | $53,100 | 2026-27 | 2.6 |
| The Oak Hill School | $26,225 | 2026-27 | 3.7 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Primrose School of Brentwood ✓ | On the state list; not in the federal survey | <1 | |
| Brentwood Academy ✓ | On the state list; not in the federal survey | <1 | |
| Otter Creek Kindergarten & Preschool ✓ | PreK-K | 27 | 1 |
| Benton Hall Academy ✓ | On the state list; not in the federal survey | 2 | |
| Currey Ingram Academy ✓ | K-12 | 392 | 3 |
| Montessori Centre | PreK-K | 10 | 4 |
| Christ Presbyterian Academy ✓ | On the state list; not in the federal survey | 4 | |
| The Oak Hill School | PreK-6 | 478 | 4 |
On the program’s official list Other private schools
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