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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 the school 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 a principal, four full–time teachers, five part-time teachers, a paraprofessional for the primary grades, 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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