Jubilee Academy
5 mi✓ South Carolina Education Scholarship Trust FundGrades PreK-416 students2.7 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)MontessoriCo-ed
Christian schools in Columbia, SC
9 in Columbia or within 6 miles; schools in Columbia itself count at any distance from downtown. 4 are on the state’s ESTF list. Protestant and nondenominational Christian schools, going by the affiliation each school gave the federal survey (for schools new since then in Florida, the state’s private school directory).
✓ South Carolina Education Scholarship Trust FundGrades K-1258 students6.7 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Co-ed75% to 4-year college
Ben Lippen School
10 mi✓ South Carolina Education Scholarship Trust FundGrades PreK-121,105 students13.7 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Co-ed95% to 4-year college
✓ South Carolina Education Scholarship Trust FundGrades 4-1213 students3.6 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Special educationCo-ed0% to 4-year college
Grades PreK-KBaptistEarly childhoodCo-ed
Grades PreK-KMethodistEarly childhoodCo-ed
Grades PreK-KMethodistEarly childhoodCo-ed
Grades PreK-KChristian (nondenominational)Early childhoodCo-ed
Grades K-1231 students10.7 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Co-ed50% to 4-year college
Christian schools near Columbia by the numbers
- Where
- all 9 in Columbia
- Students
- about 1,223 in all; the typical school has 31
- Smallest and largest
- Hope Christian Academy, 13 students; Ben Lippen School, 1,105 students
- Students per teacher
- 6.7 typical, 2.7 to 13.7 across 8 schools
- Co-ed or single-sex
- all co-ed
- Association members
- 5, most often the American Association of Christian Schools
- To a 4-year college
- 75% of graduates at the typical high school (4 reporting)
- State program
- Education savings account, $7,634 per student for 2026-27
How ESTF works
- Pre-K (and up)6
- Elementary (K to 5)9
- Middle (6 to 8)4
- High school (9 to 12)4
- K to 12, one school3
- Under 503
- 50 to 1491
- 150 to 2990
- 300 to 5990
- 600 or more1
- Christian schools here44%
- All of South Carolina54%
Where these facts come from
- Grades, size, affiliation, co-ed, membership, college-going: NCES Private School Universe Survey 2023-24, downloaded September 20, 2026.
- Program list: South Carolina Education Scholarship Trust Fund schools, list dated September 28, 2026, checked November 2, 2026.
- Award and rules: South Carolina Education Scholarship Trust Fund, official page, read October 7, 2026.
Keep looking
- All private schools near Columbia
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- Private middle schools in Columbia
- Private schools with kindergarten in Columbia
- Private schools with pre-K in Columbia
- Christian schools in West Columbia (12 mi)
- Christian schools in Lexington (18 mi)
- Christian schools in Sumter (30 mi)
- Christian schools in Orangeburg (38 mi)
- Christian schools in Blackville (53 mi)
- Christian schools in Aiken (59 mi)
- Christian schools in Rock Hill (62 mi)
- Christian schools in Florence (64 mi)
- Christian schools across South Carolina
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