Seventh-day Adventist education


The Seventh-day Adventist educational system, part of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, is overseen by the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists located in Silver Spring, Maryland. The educational system is a Christian school-based system.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church has associations with a total of 8,515 educational institutions operating in over 100 countries around the world with over 1.95 million students worldwide. The association of related educators published the Journal of Adventist Education, a magazine that focuses on Seventh-day Adventist curriculum and teaching.
The denominationally-based school system began in the 1870s. The church supports holistic education:

Education by level

Primary

There are 5,915 Primary Schools worldwide.
Enrollment: over 1.2 million students.

Secondary

There are more than 2,435 Secondary Schools worldwide.
Enrollment: More than 603,000 students.

Tertiary

The Adventist Church, usually through Union-level administrative units, is associated with a number of post secondary educational institutions around the world that include:
Number of Tertiary Institutions : 115.
Enrollment : more than 145,000.

Education by area

North America

The North American Division Office of Education coordinates with 1,049 schools with 65,000 students in the United States, Canada, and Bermuda.