Chisholm Trail Academy is a Seventh-day Adventist

Seventh-day Adventist Church

The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a Protestant Christian denomination distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the original seventh day of the Judeo-Christian week, as the Sabbath, and by its emphasis on the imminent second coming of Jesus Christ...

  co-educational high school

High school

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 located at Fourth and Old Betsy in Keene, Texas

Keene, Texas

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. Keene is located midway between Alvarado

Alvarado, Texas

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 and Cleburne

Cleburne, Texas

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, 25 miles (40.2 km) south of Fort Worth

Fort Worth, Texas

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. Chisholm Trail Academy is situated on 27 acres (109,265.2 m²) of land.

Chisholm Trail Academy (grades 9-12) provides for the education of the young people in the Seventh-day Adventist churches located in the Keene area. Along with Keene Adventist Elementary School

Keene Adventist Elementary School

Keene Adventist Elementary School is a Seventh-day Adventist co-educational PK-8 elementary school located in Keene, Texas.-History:On January 7, 1894, when "The Texas Academy" opened its doors to welcome the...

 (K-8) and Southwestern Adventist University (college and postgraduate), Chisholm Trail Academy provides a complete Christian church school program. The Keene Seventh-day Adventist Church is the constituent church of Chisholm Trail Academy.

Facilities

Facilities include two sports fields, a gymnasium with a stage, 15 classrooms, a library, an industrial vocational building and an administrative complex.

History

Chisholm Trail Academy came into existence when Southwestern Junior College (now Southwestern Adventist University

Southwestern Adventist University

Southwestern Adventist University is one of 13 colleges and universities in the United States affiliated with the Adventist Church. It was founded in 1893 as Keene Industrial Academy. It adopted its current name in 1996....

) was granted full college status and closed its academy operation in 1967. Chisholm Trail Academy's first graduating class was in 1968.