Rivers Edge Christian Academy
PO Box 31733, Knoxville, TN 37930Open, per Google (checked Sep 20, 2026)
Key facts
- Tuition
- On the school’s website
- Grades
- PreK-12
- Students (K-12)
- 581
- Students per teacher
- 12.4
- Affiliation
- Christian (nondenominational)
- From Knoxville 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
- Not worked out: no verified 2026-27 tuition yet. See the school’s tuition page
School facts
- Teachers
- 65
- Student body
- Coeducational
- Program
- Special program emphasis
- Boys and girls
- 46% boys, 54% girls
- Go on to a 4-year college
- 65%
- Setting
- City
- Member of
- Association of Christian Schools International
- 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
- 390 to 581, up 191 (49%)
- Path
- Grew in each survey (522 in 2021-22)
Students by grade, 2023-24 (pre-K is not in the K-12 count)
- Largest grade
- Kindergarten (60)
- Smallest grade
- Grade 10 (28)
- Across the grades
- Classes thin out toward the upper grades
- High school grades
- Average 34; lower grades 50
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, 3 days a week
- 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
- 12.4 here; median 8.8 at 171 TN combined schools
- Size in Knox County
- Larger than 24 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.
Rivers Edge Christian Academy tuition, and what EFS pays
- Published tuition
- On the school’s own tuition page (found October 11, 2026)
- Nearby schools’ prices
- $6,500 to $12,715 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 Rivers Edge Christian Academy?
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apostolic Christian School | $6,500 | 2026-27 | 1.3 |
| Grace Christian Academy | $8,800 to $12,715 | 2026-27 | 3.6 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apostolic Christian School ✓ | PreK-12 | 246 | 1 |
| New Pathways Academy | 8-12 | 28 | 2 |
| Peer Academy | K-10 | 45 | 2 |
| Knoxville Montessori School | PreK-11 | 82 | 3 |
| Pride & Joy Children's Academy | PreK-K | 6 | 3 |
| Temple Baptist Academy ✓ | K-12 | 204 | 3 |
| Knoxville Adventist School | K-9 | 36 | 3 |
| Grace Christian Academy ✓ | PreK-12 | 1,002 | 4 |
On the program’s official list Other private schools
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