✓ Tennessee Education Freedom ScholarshipGrades K-12114 students5.5 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Co-ed40% to 4-year college
Christian schools in Athens, TN
5 in Athens or within 12 miles. 3 are on the state’s EFS 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).
✓ Tennessee Education Freedom ScholarshipGrades PreK-1294 students10.3 students per teacherBaptistCo-ed40% to 4-year college
✓ Tennessee Education Freedom ScholarshipGrades PreK-10108 students8.9 students per teacherBaptistCo-ed
Grades K-1228 students7 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Co-ed50% to 4-year college
Grades K-1270 students11.7 students per teacherPentecostalCo-ed50% to 4-year college
Christian schools near Athens by the numbers
- Where
- 4 in Athens, 1 within 12 miles
- Students
- about 414 in all; the typical school has 94
- Smallest and largest
- Liberty Christian School, 28 students; Christ's Legacy Academy, 114 students
- Students per teacher
- 8.9 typical, 5.5 to 11.7 across 5 schools
- Co-ed or single-sex
- all co-ed
- Association members
- 3, most often the American Association of Christian Schools
- To a 4-year college
- 50% of graduates at the typical high school (4 reporting)
- State program
- Scholarship, $7,530 per student for 2026-27
How EFS works
- Pre-K (and up)2
- Elementary (K to 5)5
- Middle (6 to 8)5
- High school (9 to 12)5
- K to 12, one school4
- Under 501
- 50 to 1494
- Christian schools here60%
- All of Tennessee57%
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: Tennessee Education Freedom Scholarships schools, list dated August 24, 2026, checked November 4, 2026.
- Award and rules: Tennessee Education Freedom Scholarships, official page, read October 2, 2026.
Keep looking
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