Takoma Academy is a parochial

Parochial school

A parochial school is a school that provides religious education in addition to conventional education. In a narrower sense, a parochial school is a Christian grammar school or high school which is part of, and run by, a parish.-United Kingdom:...

, co-educational high school

High school

High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....

 located in Takoma Park, Maryland

Takoma Park, Maryland

Takoma Park is a city in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. It is a suburb of Washington, D.C., and part of the Washington Metropolitan Area. Founded in 1883 and incorporated in 1890, Takoma Park, informally called "Azalea City," is a Tree City USA and a nuclear-free zone...

 operated by the Potomac Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

Potomac Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

The Potomac Conference of Seventh-day Adventists is the organizational body of the Seventh-day Adventist Church for the State of Virginia, and the Washington Metropolitan Area in the United States. Its headquarters are in Staunton, Virginia...

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History

Takoma Academy began in 1904 as part of the Washington Training Institute (now Washington Adventist University. It became an independent institute in 1932 and moved to its current location in 1952. J.P. Laurence was principal from 1947–1980 and led the school to accreditation by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools.

Notable alumni

• Leonard Bailey
  Leonard L. Bailey
  Leonard L. Bailey a surgeon at Loma Linda University Medical Center who on October 26, 1984, placed the heart of a baboon into the chest of "Baby Fae", a neonatal infant born with a severe heart defect known as Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome...
  
   - Surgeon
• Tony Skinn
  Tony Skinn
  Tony Oludewa Jeffrey Skinn was a college basketball player who was a starting guard for the George Mason University Patriots.-College career:...
  
   - National Basketball Association
  National Basketball Association
  The National Basketball Association is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in North America. It consists of thirty franchised member clubs, of which twenty-nine are located in the United States and one in Canada...
  
   (NBA) Player for Orlando Magic summer league team

See also

• List of Seventh-day Adventist secondary schools
• Washington Adventist University

External links

• ta.edu Takoma Academy's Official Website
• The Commonweal Foundation - Provider of scholarships to low income students at Takoma Academy