More Than a Place to Stay. A Place to Belong.
Students from around the world don't simply attend The King's Academy. They live, learn, compete, worship, celebrate, and grow together here. Boarding is woven into the life of our school.
Campus life doesn't end when the school day does.
For boarding students, TKA is classroom and community, school and home. The hours after class are filled with practices, conversations, shared meals, study, laughter, worship, friendships, and the everyday moments that turn a campus into a place of belonging.
Living on campus gives students room to become more independent while remaining surrounded by adults who know them, care for them, and help them grow academically, spiritually, and personally.
A space of your own. A community just outside your door.
Boarding students live on campus in Stewart and Schubert Residence Halls. Rooms are typically shared by two students, creating an immediate connection to the residential community while giving students a place to settle in and make their own.
Share the Experience
Rooms are typically shared by two students, creating an immediate opportunity to build friendship and learn how to live well with others.
Make It Home
Each room provides students with the essentials they need to create a comfortable home base for life on campus.
Community Is Close
Friends, shared spaces, study, conversation, and the adults who care for students are never far away.
Students don't live here alone.
Residence Life is built around relationships. The adults caring for boarding students are part of their everyday experience, helping them navigate responsibilities, relationships, challenges, celebrations, and life away from home.
Kent Jones
Director of Residence Life
Leading TKA's residential community with an emphasis on relationships, responsibility, Christian formation, and student growth.
Hiko Eilertson
Japanese Instructor & Girls Residence Hall Director
Investing in students during the academic day and throughout life in TKA's residential community.
Will Casey
Teaching Assistant & Boys Residence Hall
Providing a consistent adult presence and helping students thrive in the everyday rhythms of residential life.
They don't just work here. They live here.
Residence Life staff live in the residence halls alongside students. That means care and supervision aren't limited to office hours. Students have trusted adults nearby throughout the ordinary rhythms of residential life.
There's a lot of life between the final bell and bedtime.
Residential life combines structure with room to grow. Evenings create space for responsibilities, academics, friendships, faith, activities, and simply being together.
Get involved.
Practices, rehearsals, clubs, activities, and time with friends transition students from the academic day into campus life.
Gather around the table.
Shared meals give students time to reconnect after a full school day before moving into the evening.
Build strong habits.
Dedicated study time helps students manage responsibilities, stay organized, and keep academics a priority.
Spend time together.
Conversations, games, friendships, faith, and ordinary moments create the memories students carry with them.
Rest. Reset. Begin again.
A consistent residential routine helps students prepare for another full day at TKA.
East Tennessee becomes part of the experience.
Weekends create room to recharge, explore, celebrate, and simply spend time together. Sometimes that means an adventure away from campus. Other times, the best part of the weekend is simply being with friends.
From the Great Smoky Mountains and Dollywood to Knoxville outings, home games, church, movies, shopping, and time with friends, weekends give students space to explore, recharge, and experience East Tennessee together.
Life here prepares students for life beyond here.
Boarding gives students opportunities to practice independence, responsibility, communication, resilience, and community before they ever arrive on a college campus.
Live Independently.
Students learn to manage time, academic responsibilities, commitments, routines, and everyday decisions while trusted adults remain close enough to guide and support them.
Belong Deeply.
Living together creates friendships that extend far beyond the classroom. Students learn to communicate across differences, contribute to community, share faith, and care for one another.
Step Forward Confidently.
The independence, study habits, resilience, and life skills developed through boarding create a meaningful bridge between high school and university life.
26 Countries.
One Campus.
Boarding changes more than the experience of the students who live on campus. It changes the experience of everyone who learns here.
Day students learn beside classmates whose stories began in communities around the world. Those perspectives enter classrooms, lunch tables, teams, chapel, clubs, and friendships.
A student from Seymour can build a friendship with a classmate from another continent without leaving East Tennessee. An international student becomes part of an American school community while helping that community see the world differently.
Known. Loved. Equipped.
More independence. Deeper community.
Boarding life is shaped by the friendships, experiences, and everyday moments students share together.
Living at TKA means being surrounded by people who become like family. Students build friendships with classmates from around the world, experience new things together, and find a community where they can truly belong.
Boarding gives students the opportunity to become more independent while still having people around them who care about their growth and success. They learn to manage time, take responsibility, and prepare for what comes next.
A student can travel thousands of miles from home and find a place where they are known, loved, and equipped.
Come experience life at TKA.
Meet our team, explore campus, see our residence halls, and discover what it could look like to call The King's Academy home.
