Education Freedom Accounts arrived in 2026, and Fort Worth families moved quickly. By late July, Fort Worth ISD residents held the fifth-most funded accounts in Texas, and the suburbs from Arlington to Keller weren't far behind. Still, the rules are new, the first year's money ran out, and few families know how an account combines with Catholic tuition aid, IEP funding, pre-K eligibility, child care scholarships, dual credit or the federal credit coming in 2027. We explain all of it.
A School Funding Advisor looks at each family's situation, builds a funding plan and introduces the family to schools that accept that funding. Our work is supported by a private partner that helps church-run and community schools grow. We disclose that relationship on every page where it applies, and it has no say in which sources we recommend.
Where the school data comes from
Which schools take TEFA. On October 12, 2026 we downloaded the Texas Comptroller's participating-school finder, which Odyssey operates at finder.educationfreedom.texas.gov, for Tarrant, Parker, Johnson, Wise and Hood counties. Every school and pre-K provider it returned is in our directory, along with the descriptions, programs and discounts the school entered. To be listed, a school must hold accreditation from TEA or a TEPSAC-recognized accreditor, have at least two years of operation behind it and test participating students annually.
Enrollment and affiliation. For size, staffing, religious orientation and association memberships we rely on the federal Private School Survey public-use files from the U.S. Department of Education: the 2023-24 release, with the 2021-22 release filling in for schools that skipped the latest round. That survey also surfaces long-established Fort Worth schools that haven't joined TEFA, so all 136 K-12 schools appear whether or not they participate.
Profile pages. We write a full profile only when public records support one, meaning federal enrollment and staff figures or a TEFA listing with a meaningful description or program list. Every other school still appears in the directory tables, and any school can claim its listing to add details.
Dollar amounts and counts. Award amounts, approved expenses and the pre-K criteria are from educationfreedom.texas.gov. Funded students by district come from the Comptroller's TEFA Annual Demographic Report (snapshot of July 29, 2026), and IEP totals from the 2026-27 Special Education Funding Table. Diocese of Fort Worth figures come from the Catholic Schools Office website, North Texas Catholic and NBC 5 reporting, and child care waitlist estimates come from the two local workforce boards' websites. Neither public source reports tuition.
Texas keeps no official list of private schools. If you know a Fort Worth-area school we've missed, let us know and we'll verify it and add it.
Fort Worth Edu Funding is a project of Boss Leads. We are not a school, the Texas Comptroller, Odyssey, the Diocese of Fort Worth, or a government agency.