Pine Tree Academy (also known as Pine Tree or PTA) is a
Seventh-day Adventist, co-educational
University preparatory school for boarding and day students in grades K–12.
It is a part of the
Seventh-day Adventist education system, the world's second largest Christian school system. The school is located in
Freeport, Maine, north of
Portland
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* Portland, Oregon, the largest city in the state of Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States
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.
Pine Tree Academy was founded in 1921 on a farm near
Auburn, Maine. The school closed in 1933 because of
The Depression. In 1961, the academy reopened as Pine Tree Memorial School in Freeport. In 1973, the school began offering all four years of the high school grades. Today, the academy is the oldest academy in the Northern New England Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
[PTA History. Pine Tree Academy. http://www.pinetreeacademy.org/article.php?id=45 (accessed May 15, 2010).] The academy is accredited by the
Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools
The Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools (Middle States Association or MSA) was a voluntary, peer-based, non-profit association that performed peer evaluation and regional educational accreditation, accreditation of public and priva ...
and by the
Adventist Accrediting Association.
The academy has two sports programs—basketball and soccer. The basketball teams are members of the
Maine Principals' Association. The soccer teams are members of the Maine Christian School Sports League.
In 2018, Derek Michael Boyce, a high school math and science teacher at the school, was arrested for having an inappropriate relationship with one of his students, a fifteen-year-old girl.
See also
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List of Seventh-day Adventist secondary schools
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Seventh-day Adventist education
References
External links
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Adventist secondary schools in the United States
Private elementary schools in Maine
Private middle schools in Maine
Private high schools in Maine
Schools in Cumberland County, Maine
1921 establishments in Maine
Educational institutions established in 1921
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