A thriving, Christ-centred learning community, Adventist Education is the largest protestant schooling system in the world. It is a vital ministry of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, with a commitment to sharing God’s life-transforming love.
Adventist Education has been an integral part of the ministry of the worldwide Seventh-day Adventist Church since the early 1870s, and with over 10,000 schools, colleges, and universities in over 100 countries, is the largest protestant schooling system in the world.
In 1892 the very first Adventist school in Australia opened in St Kilda, Melbourne. Today around Australia, our 48 schools and 38 early learning services are respected in their communities for providing authentic Christian education to nearly 18,000 students and young children from all sectors of the community.
Our schools and early learning services in Australia are non-selective, inclusive schools, open to all who want a Christian community that is caring, safe, values-based, and sets high academic standards.
The Seventh-day Adventist philosophy of education is Christ-centred. We believe that Jesus is the ultimate example of ‘love in action’ and He wants us to do likewise. As such, Adventist Education is a vital ministry of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and is committed to sharing God’s life-transforming love. Adventist Education strives to be transformative. It seeks to impart more than academic knowledge through the balanced development of the whole person: spiritually, mentally, socially, and physically. It seeks to develop a life of faith in God and respect for the dignity of all people. It seeks to guide students “to be thinkers, and not mere reflectors of other people’s thoughts” (White, E. Education, 1903). It promotes loving service rather than selfish ambition, and it embraces all that is true and good. Our schools and early learning services seek to be thriving, nurturing, learning communities where Jesus is central, and where our students and young children may become all that God intends them to be.
