After ESN: Your Next Level Schools Resource
Finding the right fit for a new school can be a difficult process. Your admissions team at ESN is here to help make the transition of leaving our nest as easy as possible. Contact us at admissions@esnashville.org with any questions.
Day Schools
Brentwood Academy
Brentwood Academy is a coeducational Christian independent college preparatory school located in Brentwood, Tennessee, for grades 6–12. With a long history of excellence in athletics, BA athletes are not only skilled in their sport but also disciplined. BA has 60 athletic offerings available for boys and girls in grades 6 through 12. Participation in athletics is required for each student at BA as we live out the commitment to our mission to nurture and challenge each whole person – body, mind, and spirit – to the glory of God.
Chattanooga Prep
Chattanooga Preparatory School is an all-boys public charter school located in Chattanooga, Tennessee. They offer a quality STEM-centered curriculum in addition to leadership development to ensure students' future success in a fast-paced world.
Ensworth School
The Ensworth School is a K-12 private school located on two separate campuses in Nashville, Tennessee. Ensworth believes that the pursuit of knowledge and discovery is a lifelong journey. Through our guiding principles —moral integrity, intellectual vitality, discipline, compassion, humor, and joy—we equip our students with the skills required to think critically, embrace challenges, communicate and collaborate effectively, act ethically, and serve selflessly.
Franklin Road Academy
FRA is a coeducational independent school in Nashville offering PK-12th grade students a challenging educational experience within an inclusive Christian community. FRA aims to inspire in their students a lifelong love of learning through a dynamic academic program which will prepare them for success in life; encourage the discovery of passions, and nurture leaders of integrity, guided by Christian principles, compelled to lead lives of compassionate global citizenship.
Harpeth Hall
Harpeth Hall is an independent, college-preparatory school for girls serving more than 720 middle and upper school students in grades 5-12. Located on a beautiful 44-acre campus in the Green Hills area of Nashville, Harpeth Hall's distinctiveness is experienced through the creativity, curiosity, and integrity our students. Here, girls become women who choose to learn and grow, to lead and to challenge themselves, first on our campus and then in the world.
Lipscomb Academy
Lipscomb Academy is a premier private, college preparatory, Christian school serving students in grades PK-12. They’re a Christ-centered community preparing learners for purposeful lives through rigorous academics and transformative experiences.
Montgomery Bell Academy
Montgomery Bell Academy is the only all boys school in Middle Tennessee, founded in 1867, and proud of their roots and foundations dating back to the 1780's. MBA's long history is intricately woven into the ideal of developing “Gentlemen, Scholars, Athletes,” — an ideal that strikes the proper balance of tradition and modernity. They relish the spirit of boys and strive to ensure that a boy’s work and character define him – not his last name, zip code, or previous school.
Pope John Paul II Preparatory School
Serving grades 6-12, Pope Saint John Paul II Preparatory School is a Catholic school in the Diocese of Nashville, Tennessee. Inspired by faith, Pope Saint John Paul II Preparatory School prepares students to be strong in mind, body, character, and spirit for lives of learning and service, according to the Gospel. Their holistic approach to education nurtures spiritual formation, academic excellence, artistic creativity, athletic strength, and a deep sense of community.
Templeton Academy
Templeton Academy is a college-preparatory, private, non-sectarian, co-educational high school serving grades 5-12. They aim to revolutionize access to student agency by nurturing young people from all backgrounds into purposeful adults who use their gifts in a way that brings them joy and serves others. Each student is on their own educational journey here. They believe in not only learning to know, but learning to do, and most importantly, learning to be. Through this process, a student finds their purpose.
St. Cecilia Academy
St. Cecilia Academy is unique in Nashville and greater Middle Tennessee. Founded in 1860, they are the oldest continually operating school in the city. St. Cecilia Academy is many things: Catholic. Dominican. College preparatory. All girls. Grades 7-12.
Their school is a rich blend of age-old wisdom and dynamic discovery, a place where learning and laughter happily coexist. St. Cecilia is a community where girls from diverse backgrounds discover a home not just for four years, but for life.
University School of Nashville
At USN, you’ll find an inclusive and diverse educational community committed to academic excellence where faculty engage K-12 classrooms with a student-centered approach. In USN's classrooms, studios, and fields, students build confidence and skills to stretch beyond their limits and find their voices. Our K-12 community members embrace new learning opportunities and creative experiences, thrive in challenging courses, voice thoughtful opinions, and lead change-making efforts.
Boarding Schools
Baylor School
A co-ed independent college preparatory boarding and day school for Grades 6 -12, located in Chattanooga, TN. They aim to foster their students both the ability and the desire to make a positive difference in the world. Baylor works to foster Magnanimitas, or Greatness of Spirit, in its students. The school, therefore, seeks to create students who lead with the habits of being resilient, honor, positive, empathetic, and curious.
McCallie School
Located in Chattanooga, Tennessee, McCallie offers boys in grades 6-12 an exceptional education. Academic and extracurricular programs are tailored specifically to boys. They learn responsibility, leadership, and citizenship. Through interactions and relationships with faculty and peers, they develop strong social-emotional skills. Every year their boys are accepted into outstanding colleges and universities across the country and become leaders wherever they are.
St Andrew’s - Sewanee School
Established in 1868, St. Andrew’s-Sewanee School is a private, co-educational, Episcopal, boarding and day college preparatory school serving 210 students in grades 6-12. They’re dedicated to inspiring students to live lives of active curiosity and loving service. They challenge our students to fulfill their greatest potential while helping them to cultivate lives of balance and joy.
The Webb School
For more than 150 years, The Webb School has provided challenging academics with an emphasis on personal integrity in a small family-like setting.
It is a place where young adults are not just expected to learn—they are encouraged to lead. The Webb School emphasizes independent thinking, creative initiative, personal integrity, and civic responsibility. The end result is stronger, more confident thinkers, makers, and doers prepared for college and ready to take on any challenge.