Riverside Christian Academy, Fayetteville TN Tuition

Tuition: On the school’s website
Grades: PreK-12
Students (K-12): 201
Students per teacher: 8
Affiliation: Church of Christ

All school facts and where they come from

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

Call (931) 625-0269 Visit website Directions Add to compare

School facts

Teachers: 25
Student body: Coeducational
Boys and girls: 52% boys, 48% girls
Go on to a 4-year college: 67%
Setting: Town

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.

Where this comes from. Something wrong? Tell us and we will fix it.

Students and school year

Enrollment over time

2019-20 to 2023-24: 236 to 201, down 35 (15%)
Path: Fell in each survey (211 in 2021-22)

Students by grade, 2023-24 (pre-K is not in the K-12 count)

Largest grade: Grade 3 and grade 6 (20 each)
Smallest grade: Grade 10 (10)
Average a grade, high school included: About 15

The school year

Days in the school year: 180
Length of the school day: 7 hours 20 minutes
Hours of school a year: about 1,320
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: 20 minutes longer than the median of 7 hours (373 schools we list)

How it compares

Students per teacher

Students per teacher: 8 here; median 8.8 at 171 TN combined schools

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.

Riverside Christian Academy tuition, and what EFS pays

Published tuition: On the school’s own tuition page (found October 11, 2026)

TN

Tennessee Education Freedom Scholarships Scholarship

Award: $7,530 per student for 2026-27

Figures read from each program’s official pages, October 2, 2026. Sources and how to apply

What would you pay at Riverside Christian Academy?

Yearly tuition the school quoted Fees, books, uniforms EFS award Children

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

Other private schools nearby

School	Grades	Students	Per teacher	Affiliation	Miles
Tullahoma SDA School	K	3	3.3	Seventh-Day Adventist	24
Cooper Christian Academy ✓	On the state list; not in the federal survey				26
Winchester Christian Academy ✓	PreK-10	287	14.5	Christian (nondenominational)	27
Victory Baptist Academy ✓	K-12	167	15.5	Baptist	28
The Webb School ✓	6-12	411	6.3	Nonsectarian	35
St. Andrew's-Sewanee School ✓	6-12	231	6.8	Episcopal	39

On the program’s official list Other private schools

Keep looking

No new EFS application dates are posted yet. How EFS works.

Run this school? Update this listing for free. School staff: add the official list badge to your website.

Riverside Christian Academy

Key facts