Tennessee Avenue Christian Academy
806 Tennessee Ave, Bristol, TN 37620Checked against the official list (dated August 24, 2026)
Key facts
- Tuition
- Not published
- Grades
- PreK-12
- Students (K-12)
- 230
- Students per teacher
- 8.5
- Affiliation
- Baptist
- From Johnson City center
- 20.3 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
School facts
- Teachers
- 29
- Student body
- Coeducational
- Go on to a 4-year college
- 100%
- Setting
- City
- Member of
- American Association of Christian Schools
- Accreditation, state list
- Accredited by Tennessee Association of Christian Schools (TACS) (Tennessee Category II), 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
- 123 to 230, up 107 (87%)
- Path
- Grew in each survey (136 in 2021-22)
Students by grade, 2023-24 (pre-K is not in the K-12 count)
- Largest grade
- 9 grades (20 each)
- Smallest grade
- Grade 11 and grade 12 (10 each)
- Across the grades
- Classes thin out toward the upper grades
- High school grades
- Average 13; lower grades 20
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, 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
- About the median of 7 hours (373 schools we list)
How it compares
- Students per teacher
- 8.5 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.
Tennessee Avenue Christian Academy tuition, and what EFS pays
- Published tuition
- No verified figure yet
Figures read from each program’s official pages, October 2, 2026. Sources and how to apply
What would you pay at Tennessee Avenue Christian Academy?
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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
Other private schools nearby
| School | Grades | Students | Miles |
|---|---|---|---|
| East TN Christian Home & Academy | 8-12 | 7 | 17 |
| Christian Life Academy | K-12 | 87 | 19 |
| St. Mary's School ✓ | K-8 | 166 | 19 |
| St. Mary's Catholic School - Washington ✓ | On the state list; not in the federal survey | 19 | |
| Hilton Horizons Academy ✓ | On the state list; not in the federal survey | 19 | |
| Appalacian Banner Academy | Ungraded | 13 | 20 |
| Acton Academy Johnson City ✓ | On the state list; not in the federal survey | 20 | |
| St. Dominic Catholic School ✓ | PreK-5 | 85 | 20 |
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