NH Education Freedom Accounts

Everything You Need to Know about Education Freedom Accounts

Education Freedom Accounts (EFA) are grants from the State of New Hampshire, administered by CSF, made available to families with incomes at or below 350 percent of the poverty level to spend on their children’s education, including tuition at the school of their choice, tutoring, classes, online learning programs, educational supplies, technology, and other educational expenses.

Who is eligible

To be eligible for a New Hampshire EFA

  1. You and your student must be New Hampshire residents.
  2. Your child must be at least 5 years old and no older than 20 years old and entering Kindergarten – 12th grade.
  3. Your family’s income must be at or below 350% of the federal poverty level guidelines shown in the chart below.
  4. You must complete the application process and sign the EFA agreement, which includes agreeing to share academic accountability documents.
  5. Students who will attend their local district public or a charter school full-time in school year 2025-26 will not be eligible to receive an EFA.

Who is not eligible

  1. Students attending their local district public school full-time are NOT eligible to receive an EFA. This means that if you receive an EFA award, your student cannot be enrolled in the EFA program and attend your local public school full-time. The student would be ineligible and you would be required to exit the student. If you fail to notify the scholarship organization that your student has become ineligible, you are liable for any State funds that you spend which your student was not entitled to under the law.
  2. Students attending a public charter school full-time are NOT eligible to receive an EFA. This means that if you receive an EFA award, your student cannot be enrolled in the EFA program and attend a public charter school full-time. The student would be ineligible and you would be required to exit the student. If you fail to notify the scholarship organization that your student has become ineligible, you are liable for any State funds that you spend which your student was not entitled to under the law.

How to apply

Applications for Education Freedom Accounts (EFAs) for the 2025-26 school year are now OPEN for both new and returning families.

New families
Returning EFA families

If your family has never applied to Children’s Scholarship Fund before, please click the New Families button below. If your family currently uses an EFA, or if your family has ever applied to Children’s Scholarship Fund in the past, please click the Returning EFA Families button below.

EFA application deadline: To receive a 100% EFA grant for the 2025-2026 school year, the application and supporting materials must be verified by Tuesday, July 15, 2025. 

  • The EFA grant has strict funding guidelines. EFA grants are awarded and prorated based on the EFA application’s completed and verified status. Please refer to the EFA parent handbook for more details. 
  • You will only be eligible for an EFA grant award when the online application and all of your supporting income documents have been submitted and verified by CSFNH.
  • Supporting documents must be submitted in a PDF format. Please do not upload your income documents as pictures or videos.
  • Please submit only one (1) application per family. Submitting multiple applications may delay processing times.

CSF maintains the confidentiality of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in accordance with state and federal law and requires that third-party vendors maintain the confidentiality of PII in accordance with state and federal law.

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