The Seventh-day Adventist educational system is the second-largest Christian School-system in the world.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church has a total of 7,598 educational institutions operating in over 100 countries around the world with over 1.5 million students worldwide.
This denominationally-based school system began in the 1870s. The church supports holistic education:
Mental, physical, social, and spiritual health, intellectual growth, and service to humanity form a core of values that are essential aspects of the Adventist education philosophy.
See our statistics below:
| Schools | Teachers | Students | |||
| Elementary Schools | 729 | Elementary Teachers | 2, 666 | Elementary Students | 38, 999 |
| Secondary Schools | 109 | Secondary Teachers | 2, 175 | Secondary Students | 12, 867 |
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Colleges/ Universities |
14 |
Colleges/ Universities |
3, 323 |
Colleges/ Universities |
24, 179 |
| Total | 852 | Total | 8, 164 | Total | 76, 044 |