Tates School
9215 Bob Gray Rd, Knoxville, TN 37923Open, per Google (checked Sep 20, 2026)
Key facts
- Tuition
- On the school’s website
- Grades
- PreK-8
- Students (K-12)
- 184
- Students per teacher
- 7.1
- Affiliation
- Nonsectarian
- From Knoxville center
- 8.5 miles
Can you use EFS here?
Not on the EFS list we read
- About the list
- How the EFS list works
- 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: EFS official source, dated August 24, 2026.
School facts
- Teachers
- 27
- Student body
- Coeducational
- Boys and girls
- 50% boys, 50% girls
- 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
Enrollment over time
- 2019-20 to 2023-24
- 185 to 184, down 1 (1%)
- Path
- Peaked at 213 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 1 (28)
- Smallest grade
- Grade 8 (8)
- Across the grades
- Classes thin out toward the upper grades
The school year
- Days in the school year
- 200
- Length of the school day
- 7 hours 30 minutes
- Hours of school a year
- about 1,500
- Kindergarten
- Full day, 5 days a week
- Classes, 2023-24
- In person
- Library or media center
- Yes
- Year, against Tennessee
- 20 days longer than the 180-day median of 372 schools we list
- School day, against Tennessee
- 30 minutes longer than the median of 7 hours (373 schools we list)
How it compares
- Students per teacher
- 7.1 here; median 8.8 at 114 TN elementary schools
- Size in Knox County
- Larger than 15 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.
Tates School tuition, and what EFS pays
- Published tuition
- On the school’s own tuition page (found September 29, 2026)
- Nearby schools’ prices
- $15,530 to $28,190 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 Tates School?
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Tuition and fees EFS pays You pay per year Spread over 10 months
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Tuition at nearby private schools
| School | Published tuition | Year | Miles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christian Academy of Knoxville | $15,530 to $18,295 | not stated | 1.2 |
| Webb School of Knoxville | $25,240 to $28,190 | not stated | 1.6 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christian Academy of Knoxville ✓ | PreK-12 | 1,054 | 1 |
| Webb School of Knoxville ✓ | PreK-12 | 1,048 | 2 |
| Grace Covenant Baptist Academy | PreK-5 | 24 | 2 |
| Cedar Springs Weekday School | PreK-K | 17 | 2 |
| Primrose School of West Knoxville | PreK-K | 10 | 2 |
| West Hills Baptist Preschool & Kindergarten ✓ | K | 13 | 3 |
| Stanford Eisenberg Knoxville Jewish Day School ✓ | K-5 | 55 | 3 |
| Primrose School of Hardin Valley | PreK-K | 15 | 3 |
On the program’s official list Other private schools
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