Our Lady of Perpetual Help School
505 S Moore Rd, Chattanooga, TN 37412Open, per Google (checked Sep 20, 2026)
Key facts
- Tuition
- On the school’s website
- Grades
- PreK-8
- Students (K-12)
- 234
- Students per teacher
- 9
- Affiliation
- Roman Catholic
- From Chattanooga center
- 4.3 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
- 27
- Student body
- Coeducational
- Diocese
- Diocese of Knoxville, TN
- Boys and girls
- 48% boys, 52% girls
- Setting
- Suburb
- Member of
- National Catholic Educational Association
- 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
- 235 to 234, down 1
- Path
- Peaked at 243 in 2021-22, then fell below where it started
Students by grade, 2023-24 (pre-K is not in the K-12 count)
- Largest grade
- Grade 4 and grade 7 (34 each)
- Smallest grade
- Grade 3 (14)
- Average a grade
- About 26
The school year
- Days in the school year
- 180
- Length of the school day
- 7 hours 10 minutes
- Hours of school a year
- about 1,290
- 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
- 10 minutes longer than the median of 7 hours (373 schools we list)
How it compares
- Students per teacher
- 9 here; median 8.8 at 114 TN elementary schools
- Size in Hamilton County
- Larger than 16 of 28 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.
Our Lady of Perpetual Help School tuition, and what EFS pays
- Published tuition
- On the school’s own tuition page (found October 11, 2026)
- Nearby schools’ prices
- $11,490 to $16,990 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 Our Lady of Perpetual Help School?
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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
Tuition at nearby private schools
| School | Published tuition | Year | Miles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brainerd Baptist School | $13,660 | 2026-27 | 0.6 |
| Belvoir Christian Academy | $11,490 to $12,300 | 2026-27 | 0.6 |
| Boyd-Buchanan School | $12,910 to $16,060 | 2026-27 | 2.7 |
| Notre Dame High School | $16,990 | 2026-27 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brainerd Baptist School ✓ | PreK-5 | 266 | <1 |
| Hamilton Heights Christian Academy ✓ | 9-12 | 66 | <1 |
| Belvoir Christian Academy ✓ | PreK-8 | 99 | <1 |
| Discovery Learners Academy ✓ | Ungraded | 50 | <1 |
| Skyuka Hall School ✓ | K-12 | 118 | 1 |
| McCallie School ✓ | On the state list; not in the federal survey | 2 | |
| Boyd-Buchanan School ✓ | PreK-12 | 1,034 | 3 |
| Notre Dame High School ✓ | 9-12 | 392 | 3 |
On the program’s official list Other private schools
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