Highland Academy, 211 Highland Circle Drive, Portland, TN 37148


Fountain Head Park at Highland Academy

WHAT WE ARE Highland Academy is a Seventh-day Adventist co-educational boarding school for grades 9 -12. 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.
SETTING 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 floorgymnasium, grounds/maintenance building, music building and industrial building. A beautiful church with approximately 700 members is located next to the campus. Students and faculty join with community for religious services in the church. The academy leases two buildings to Wilks Publications which employs a number of our students. Also located adjacent to the campus is a 100-bed nursing home, Highland Manor, and the Highland Elementary School. Highland Elementary is operated by the Highland S.D.A. Church and offers grades K-8.

STUDENT STATISTICS 2006-2007