Columbia Academy
1 mi✓ Tennessee Education Freedom ScholarshipGrades PreK-121,003 students14.5 students per teacherChurch of ChristCo-ed46% to 4-year college
Christian schools in Columbia, TN
5 in Columbia or within 12 miles. 2 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-12467 students12.5 students per teacherPresbyterianCo-ed85% to 4-year college
Grades PreK-12313 students7.8 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Co-ed80% to 4-year college
Grades K-634 students8.3 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Co-ed
Grades PreK-6158 students15.8 students per teacherChurch of ChristCo-ed
Christian schools near Columbia by the numbers
- Where
- 3 in Columbia, 2 within 12 miles
- Students
- about 1,975 in all; the typical school has 313
- Smallest and largest
- Spring Hill Christian Academy, 34 students; Columbia Academy, 1,003 students
- Students per teacher
- 12.5 typical, 7.8 to 15.8 across 5 schools
- Co-ed or single-sex
- all co-ed
- Association members
- 3, most often the Association of Christian Schools International
- To a 4-year college
- 80% of graduates at the typical high school (3 reporting)
- Verified tuition
- Columbia Academy $10,470; Agathos Classical School $8,387
- State program
- Scholarship, $7,530 per student for 2026-27
How EFS works
- Pre-K (and up)4
- Elementary (K to 5)5
- Middle (6 to 8)5
- High school (9 to 12)3
- K to 12, one school3
- Under 501
- 50 to 1490
- 150 to 2991
- 300 to 5992
- 600 or more1
- Christian schools here40%
- 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.
- Tuition for 2 schools: each school’s own website, last read October 6, 2026.
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