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Welcome to Highland Academy
Highland Academy is a Seventh-day Adventist boarding school offering quality education to grades 9-12 in a rural setting about 40 minutes north of Nashville. Its forerunner was the Fountain Head Rural School which was established on this property in 1907. Until 1945, it was operated as a self-supporting institution, a school and a hospital. Since 1945 the academy has been owned and operated by the Kentucky-Tennessee Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
The school campus consists of approximately 400 acres located in a rural area. Included in the school buildings are a classroom/administration facility, boys’ dormitory, girls’ dormitory with the cafeteria on the ground floor, gymnasium, grounds/maintenance building, music building and industrial building. A beautiful church is located next to the campus. Students and faculty join with community for religious services in the church. Also located adjacent to the campus are a long-term care facility, The Bridge at Highland, and the Highland Elementary School. Highland Elementary is operated by the Highland SDA Church and offers grades K-8.
Our Student Percentages
Previous Principals
Principals of Fountain Head Rural Industrial School
- Braden N. Mulford 1907-1937
- Ralph W. Martin 1937-1945
Principal of Fountain Head Academy
- M.E. Moore 1945-1946
Principals of Highland Academy
- William Sandborn 1946-1947
- M.E. Moore 1947-1948
- Willard F. Ray 1948-1950
- J.H. Bischoff 1950-1951
- L.C. Strickland 1951-1955
- H.D. Lawson 1956-1962
- Clarence Dunbebin 1962-1966
- John T. Durichek 1967-1969
- Don Weatherall 1969-1973
- Wayne McNutt 1973-1976
- L.H. Opp 1976-1977
- Gerald Coy 1977-1980
- Eugene Brewer 1980-1984
- H.D. Lawson 1984-1987
- Richard Stevenson 1987-1988
- Melvin Eisele 1988-1989
- Jim Ingersoll 1989-2003
- Don Mathis 2003-2008
- Becky Patrick 2008-2012
- Jere Clayburn 2012-2014
- Chadd Watkins 2014-