Morning Star Child Development Center
10614 Flickenger Ln, Knoxville, TN 37922Open, per Google (checked Sep 20, 2026)
Key facts
- Tuition
- On the school’s website
- Grades
- PreK-K
- Affiliation
- Nonsectarian
- From Knoxville center
- 11.6 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
- Not worked out: no verified 2026-27 tuition yet. See the school’s tuition page
School facts
- Teachers
- 1
- Student body
- Coeducational
- Program
- Early childhood
- Setting
- Suburb
- Accreditation, state list
- Approved by the Tennessee Department of Education (Category I), per the Tennessee Department of Education approved list of non-public schools, updated September 10, 2026. This is state approval, not accreditation.
- 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
The school year
- Days in the school year
- 180
- Length of the school day
- 7 hours
- Hours of school a year
- about 1,260
- Kindergarten
- Full day, 5 days a week
- Classes, 2023-24
- In person
- 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)
- Grades, school year and student body: U.S. Department of Education, NCES Private School Survey 2023-24, read September 20, 2026.
- Comparisons: the private schools ChoiceFunded lists, as of this page’s last update.
Morning Star Child Development Center tuition, and what EFS pays
- Published tuition
- On the school’s own tuition page (found October 11, 2026)
- Nearby schools’ prices
- $9,890 to $28,190 a year, published by 4 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 Morning Star Child Development Center?
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Episcopal School of Knoxville | $18,250 to $19,250 | 2026-27 | 2.0 |
| Webb School of Knoxville | $25,240 to $28,190 | not stated | 2.2 |
| Concord Christian School | $9,890 to $11,907 | 2026-27 | 2.4 |
| Christian Academy of Knoxville | $15,530 to $18,295 | not stated | 2.7 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Concord United Methodist Kindergarten | PreK-K | 13 | <1 |
| Little River Montessori School | PreK-8 | 40 | <1 |
| The Episcopal School of Knoxville ✓ | PreK-8 | 329 | 2 |
| Webb School of Knoxville ✓ | PreK-12 | 1,048 | 2 |
| Knoxville Christian School ✓ | PreK-12 | 209 | 2 |
| Grace Covenant Baptist Academy | PreK-5 | 24 | 2 |
| Concord Christian School ✓ | K-12 | 819 | 2 |
| Christian Academy of Knoxville ✓ | PreK-12 | 1,054 | 3 |
On the program’s official list Other private schools
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- Private elementary schools in Tennessee
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- Private schools with pre-K in Tennessee
- Private schools in Knox County
- Tennessee Education Freedom Scholarships: amount and eligibility
- All Tennessee Education Freedom Scholarships schools
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