✓ Texas Education Freedom AccountsGrades PreK-7226 students12.6 students per teacherEpiscopalCo-ed
Christian schools in McAllen, TX
10 in McAllen or within 12 miles. 8 are on the state’s TEFA 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).
✓ Texas Education Freedom AccountsGrades PreK-10307 students13.3 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Co-ed
✓ Texas Education Freedom AccountsGrades PreK-888 students7.7 students per teacherLutheran Church (Missouri Synod)Co-ed
✓ Texas Education Freedom AccountsGrades PreK-12212 students11.8 students per teacherSeventh-Day AdventistCo-ed90% to 4-year college
✓ Texas Education Freedom AccountsGrades PreK-12237 students17.2 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Co-ed80% to 4-year college
✓ Texas Education Freedom AccountsGrades PreK-11Under 10 K-12 studentsPentecostalAlternativeCo-ed
✓ Texas Education Freedom AccountsGrades PreK-1237 students6.6 students per teacherChurch of ChristCo-ed
✓ Texas Education Freedom AccountsGrades PreK-12204 students9.8 students per teacherBaptistCo-ed50% to 4-year college
Grades PreK-KChristian (nondenominational)Early childhoodCo-ed
Grades PreK-539 students3.4 students per teacherEpiscopalCo-ed
Christian schools near McAllen by the numbers
- Where
- 6 in McAllen, 4 within 12 miles
- Students
- about 1,351 in all; the typical school has 212
- Smallest and largest
- Valley Christian Heritage School, 37 students; Covenant Christian Academy, 307 students
- Students per teacher
- 11.8 typical, 3.4 to 17.2 across 9 schools
- Co-ed or single-sex
- all co-ed
- Association members
- 2, 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
- Covenant Christian Academy $7,625
- State program
- Education savings account, $10,474 per private school student for 2026-27
How TEFA works
- Pre-K (and up)10
- Elementary (K to 5)10
- Middle (6 to 8)8
- High school (9 to 12)6
- K to 12, one school4
- Under 502
- 50 to 1491
- 150 to 2994
- 300 to 5991
- Christian schools here80%
- All of Texas73%
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: Texas Education Freedom Accounts schools, list dated October 26, 2026, checked November 2, 2026.
- Award and rules: Texas Education Freedom Accounts, official page, read October 8, 2026.
- Tuition for 1 school: each school’s own website, last read October 6, 2026.
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