Highland Academy
211 Highland Cir Dr, Portland, TN 37148Open, per Google (checked Sep 20, 2026)
Key facts
- Tuition
- Not published
- Grades
- 9-12
- Students (K-12)
- 131
- Students per teacher
- 11.4
- Affiliation
- Seventh-Day Adventist
- From Hendersonville center
- 16.0 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
- 15
- Student body
- Coeducational
- Boys and girls
- 49% boys, 51% girls
- Go on to a 4-year college
- 75%
- Setting
- Rural
- 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
- 85 to 131, up 46 (54%)
- Path
- Grew in each survey (100 in 2021-22)
Students by grade, 2023-24
- Largest grade
- Grade 12 (39)
- Smallest grade
- Grade 9 (22)
- Average a grade
- About 33
The school year
- Days in the school year
- 180
- Length of the school day
- 7 hours
- Hours of school a year
- about 1,260
- 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
- Students per teacher
- 11.4 here; median 8.3 at 25 TN secondary schools
- Size in Sumner County
- Larger than 4 of 7 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.
Highland 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 Highland Academy?
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Highland Elementary School ✓ | On the state list; not in the federal survey | <1 | |
| Portland Montessori Academy | PreK-8 | 116 | 5 |
| St. John Vianney Catholic School ✓ | PreK-8 | 80 | 9 |
| Primrose School of Gallatin ✓ | On the state list; not in the federal survey | 10 | |
| The Summit Preparatory Academy | PreK-K | 10 | 11 |
| Life Christian Academy | PreK-4 | 58 | 13 |
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