Runnels Academy, Big Spring TX: PreK-12, Accepts TEFA

Tuition: Not published
Grades: PreK-12
Students (K-12): 100
Students per teacher: 5.7
Affiliation: Christian (nondenominational)

All school facts and where they come from

Can you use TEFA here?

✓ On the official Texas Education Freedom Accounts list

State list: Includes this school
Applying: The 2026-27 application window ran February 4 to March 31, 2026: it first closed March 17 and was extended to March 31 (the Comptroller’s home page; its Families page still shows March 17). No 2027-28 dates are posted yet; the state offers an interest list for updates.

Source: the official list, dated October 26, 2026.

What you would pay here

Net cost: Not worked out: no verified 2026-27 tuition yet. Check the school’s website

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School facts

Teachers: 18
Student body: Coeducational
Boys and girls: 58% boys, 42% girls
Setting: Town

Member of: Association of Classical and Christian Schools

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: 28 to 100, up 72 (257%)
Path: Grew in each survey (66 in 2021-22)

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

Largest grade: Grade 1 (15)
Smallest grade: Grade 10 and grade 11 (2 each)
Across the grades: Classes thin out toward the upper grades
High school grades: Average 3; lower grades 10

The school year

Days in the school year: 160
Length of the school day: 7 hours 30 minutes
Hours of school a year: about 1,200
Kindergarten: Full day, 5 days a week
Classes, 2023-24: In person
Library or media center: Yes
Year, against Texas: 16 days shorter than the 176-day median of 1,203 schools we list
School day, against Texas: 15 minutes longer than the median of 7 hours 15 minutes (1,252 schools we list)

How it compares

Students per teacher

Students per teacher: 5.7 here; median 8.5 at 383 TX 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.

Runnels Academy tuition, and what TEFA pays

Published tuition: No verified figure yet. Check the school’s website

TX

Texas Education Freedom Accounts Education savings account

Award: $10,474 per private school student for 2026-27
How it varies: More for students with disabilities; $2,000 for homeschooled students.

Figures read from each program’s official pages, October 8, 2026. Sources and how to apply

What would you pay at Runnels Academy?

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

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Other private schools nearby

School	Grades	Students	Per teacher	Affiliation	Miles
New Hope Christian Academy - Big Spring	PreK-4	11	5.8	Church of the Nazarene	<1
Holy Cross Catholic High School ✓	9-12	75	10.1	Roman Catholic	36
Yucca Learning: An Acton Academy ✓	PreK-12	not reported	not reported	not reported	38
Hillcrest School ✓	K-12	125	7.8	Nonsectarian	39
Hillander School	PreK-6	232	11.7	Nonsectarian	40

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