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WHAT WE ARE
Highland Academy is a 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, including 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 floor, gymnasium, grounds/maintenance building, music building and industrial buildings.
A beautiful church with approximately 700 members is located next to the campus. Students and faculty join with the 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 112-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.
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WHERE WE ARE
Highland Academy is located about forty miles north of Nashville, Tennessee, on State Highway 109 between Gallatin and Portland. Students coming to Highland Academy by bus should buy their tickets to Nashville. Those coming by air should fly to the Nashville International Airport. Students will be met upon arrival if prior arrangements have been made with the school.
ACCREDITATION
Highland Academy is a Seventh-day Adventist co-educational four-year senior high school accredited by the Accrediting Association of Seventh-day Adventist Schools, Colleges and Universities, Inc., the National Council for Private School Accreditation, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and the State of Tennessee .
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PREVIOUS PRINCIPALS
Principals of Fountain Head Rural Industrial School
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Braden N. Mulford
Ralph W. Martin
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1907-1937
1937-1945
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Principal of Fountain Head Academy |
M.E. Moore |
1945-1946 |
Principals of Highland Academy
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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 |
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WHO MAY ATTEND
Students in grades nine through twelve who express and demonstrate a definite interest in receiving a Christian education are eligible for admission. No religious test is applied to those who apply for admission; however, only those students who show due respect for the Word of God, maintain a reverent attitude toward that which is spiritual and conduct themselves in harmony with the standards of the Seventh-day Adventist Church should apply for admission to Highland Academy. Students of other religions are welcome provided they observe the regulations of the school. Those who are users of tobacco, liquors or drugs will not be admitted or retained. Those who have little desire to study, who have a low moral standard or who are careless in their deportment are not encouraged to apply.
Prospective students must submit evidence of the successful completion of the eighth grade or its equivalent. All accounts with the previous school attended must be settled or proper arrangements made. Students who have an outstanding account with any conference school will not be allowed to continue at Highland Academy after the first semester of attendance until satisfactory arrangements have been made with the previous school.
Highland Academy admits students of any race to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to the student body. No discrimination is made on the basis of race in administration of educational policies, applications for admission, scholarship or loan programs, athletic or extracurricular programs.
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PARENT-SCHOOL RELATIONSHIP
The success of the school depends in a large measure upon the good faith and wholehearted cooperation between the parents and the academy staff. If your student(s) know you support what the school is trying to do, it will be easier for them to take full advantage of the opportunities we offer.
The parents of our students are welcome on campus. Visiting between the students and their dormitory guests is encouraged in the dorm lounges only, in order that the privacy of students sharing rooms might be protected. Parents are requested to make arrangements with the dean before going to the students' rooms for whatever reason.
Parents taking their children off-campus are requested to insist that each student make arrangements beforehand with the dean.
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ASBESTOS UPDATE
Highland Academy has a management plan provided by a Certified Management Planner which is available for perusal in our Business Office.
According to our management plans, our school is asbestos free.
APPEAL PROCESS
Exceptions to policies may be considered under unusual circumstances.
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