STUDENT ELIGIBILITY

• Have previously enrolled in and attended a Tennessee public school for the one full school year immediately preceding the school year for which the student receives an education savings account; or
  
  
• Be eligible for the first time to enroll in a Tennessee K-12 public school; or
  
  
• Have received an education savings account in the previous school year.
  
  
• Be a student in grades K-12.
   
• Be a member of a household with an annual income for the previous year that does not exceed 200% of the amount required to qualify for the federal free lunch program ($98,050 for a family of four in 2021-22).
   
• Be zoned to attend a school in a local education agency (LEA), including the Achievement School District (ASD), that has 10 or more schools which are:
  • Identified as priority schools in 2015, as defined by the state’s accountability system. 
  • Among the bottom 10% of schools, as identified by the education department in 2017; and
  • ldentified as priority schools as defined by the state’s accountability system in 2018; or 
  • Is zoned to attend a school that is in the ASD on the effective date of this act If the program’s student enrollment cap is met in a given year, scholarships will be distributed with priority to children from the lowest-income families and those zoned for the lowest-performing schools.