✓ Tennessee Education Freedom ScholarshipGrades PreK-8134 students7.3 students per teacherEpiscopalCo-ed
Christian schools in Nashville, TN
12 in Nashville or within 6 miles; schools in Nashville itself count at any distance from downtown. 7 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 K-996 students10.2 students per teacherSeventh-Day AdventistCo-ed
Lipscomb Academy
5 mi✓ Tennessee Education Freedom ScholarshipGrades PreK-121,298 students11.2 students per teacherChurch of ChristCo-ed100% to 4-year college
✓ Tennessee Education Freedom ScholarshipGrades PreK-6162 students8.1 students per teacherPresbyterianCo-ed
✓ Tennessee Education Freedom ScholarshipGrades PreK-12836 students8.3 students per teacherChurch of ChristCo-ed99% to 4-year college
✓ Tennessee Education Freedom ScholarshipGrades PreK-12765 students12 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Co-ed85% to 4-year college
✓ Tennessee Education Freedom ScholarshipGrades PreK-12700 students9.2 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Co-ed75% to 4-year college
Grow Academy
4 miGrades PreK-KChristian (nondenominational)Early childhoodCo-ed
Grades 8-11Under 10 K-12 studentsPentecostalCo-ed
Grades PreK-121,020 students12.3 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Co-ed99% to 4-year college
Grades PreK-6478 students9.2 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Co-ed
Kings Academy
9 miGrades PreK-6159 students6.7 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Co-ed
Christian schools near Nashville by the numbers
- Where
- 11 in Nashville, 1 within 6 miles
- Students
- about 5,653 in all; the typical school has 700
- Smallest and largest
- F H Jenkins Preparatory School, 96 students; Lipscomb Academy, 1,298 students
- Students per teacher
- 9.2 typical, 5 to 12.3 across 11 schools
- Co-ed or single-sex
- all co-ed
- Association members
- 1, the National Association of Episcopal Schools
- To a 4-year college
- 99% of graduates at the typical high school (5 reporting)
- State program
- Scholarship, $7,530 per student for 2026-27
How EFS works
- Pre-K (and up)10
- Elementary (K to 5)11
- Middle (6 to 8)11
- High school (9 to 12)7
- K to 12, one school5
- 50 to 1492
- 150 to 2992
- 300 to 5991
- 600 or more5
- Christian schools here58%
- All of Tennessee57%
Lowest$12,900Middle$20,978Highest$28,200
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 5 schools: each school’s own website, last read October 5, 2026.
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- Christian schools in Columbia (40 mi)
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