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Clay County, Florida

Private schools in Clay County that take Step Up

21 of the 26 private schools in Clay County take a Step Up scholarship. Every one of them is below, with the phone number, straight out of Florida's official state directory.

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Unique Abilities
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PEP hybrid
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No program listed
Private school (21) Step Up's "Private School Scholarship". The paperwork calls it FTC or FES-EO. About $8,000 a year toward tuition.
Unique Abilities (20) For a child with a diagnosed disability. The paperwork calls it FES-UA. Averages about $10,000, and it is a spending account.
PEP hybrid (2) Part-time programs that pair with teaching at home. PEP on the forms.
No program listed (5) The school is in the state directory but has not told the state it takes any of them. Worth a phone call anyway — it changes.

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FES-EOFTCFES-UAPEP hybrid

Geers Exceptional Education Center

2171 Kingsley Avenue, Orange Park, FL, 32073
KG-12CoedNon-Denominational
904-982-4997 Map Claim this listing
FES-EOFTCFES-UA

Lighthouse Christian School Middleburg

3913 Laura Cir., Middleburg, FL, 32068
01-12CoedMulti/ Inter/ Trans-Denominational
904-549-5500 Map Claim this listing
FES-EOFTCFES-UA

Lighthouse Christian School Orange Park

2156 Loch Rane Blvd, Orange Park, FL, 32073
01-12CoedMulti/ Inter/ Trans-Denominational
904-549-5500 Map Claim this listing
FES-EOFTCFES-UA

Springs Academy Inc.

1106 N Orange Ave, Green Cove Springs, FL, 32043
KG-12CoedNon-DenominationalAccredited: FCCPSA
904-531-9669 Map Claim this listing
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Counties near Clay

Baker2 Bradford4 Hamilton6 Lafayette1 Nassau12 Suwannee9

Plenty of families cross a county line for the right school — the scholarship follows the child, not the address.

Using Step Up in Clay County

Almost everyone calls this the Step Up scholarship. It is worth roughly $8,000 per child per year for private school, and since 2023 there has been no household income cap. 21 schools here take it. If the four different program names are confusing, here is the whole thing in one page.

Schools flagged PEP hybrid run part-time programs that pair with home instruction, which is how many homeschool families in Clay County use two or three days of formal classes alongside their own teaching.

Call the school before anything else. Ask two questions: do you currently take my scholarship program, and do you have a seat in my child's grade. Participation and capacity both change during the year.

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Cities covered in this listing

Fleming Island, Green Cove Springs, Middleburg, Orange Park

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Where this list comes from

Compiled from the Florida Department of Education's private school directory, which is built from schools' own annual survey responses under section 1002.42, Florida Statutes. The Department does not independently verify the data, and inclusion is not approval or accreditation — by the state or by us. Pulled August 2, 2026. Confirm directly with the school before making any decision. Run one of these schools? Claim your listing to add your own description.

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