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The roots of Highland
Elementary School go back to the founding of Madison
College in 1904. One of the early students there,
Braden Mulford, moved to Fountain Head and started the
school as a unit of Madison in 1907. His wife, Pearl
West Mulford, was the school's first teacher. He
chartered it in 1914 to teach the rudiments of
education, the science of agriculture, trades, and the
Word of God. The elementary school was then part of
what became known as Fountain Head Rural Industrial
School for local young people. It operated on a
self-supporting basis, with the staff being members of
the Seventh-day Adventist Church but not
denominationally employed.
The
Kentucky-Tennessee Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
took over management of the school in 1945, changing the
name of the secondary
level section to Highland Academy. The elementary
school and academy then came under separate management.
The school has since grown from having one teacher to
its present staff of five teachers, a full-time aide and
a full-time secretary. It is accredited by the State of
Tennessee as well as the Accrediting Association of
Seventh-day Adventist Schools.
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