Tennessee Education Freedom Scholarship

The proposed scholarship amount for the 2025-26 school year is $7,295.

The department will award 20,000 scholarships as follows, in the order in which the department receives COMPLETED scholarship applications:

• 10,000 scholarships are available for eligible students who meet one (1) of the following criteria:
  • A student’s annual household income does not exceed three hundred percent (300%) of the amount required for the student to qualify for free or reduced-price lunch as provided in the income eligibility guidelines published by the United States Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Services (see chart below); or
    
  • The student is an eligible student as defined in Tenn. Code Ann. § 49-6-2602 or Tenn. Code Ann. § 49-10-1402.
    
• 10,000 scholarships are available for eligible students, regardless of the eligible student’s income.

• Student is a resident of Tennessee who is entitled to attend a public school in any of the grades kindergarten through twelve (K-12).
• Student is lawfully present in the United States.