{{Multiple issues| {{notability|organization|date=December 2024}} {{independent sources|date=December 2024}} }} {{Use American English|date=September 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox school | name = Forest Lake Academy | image = Forest Lake Academy logo.png | motto = | city = Apopka | state = FL | country = USA | type = Private 9–12 High School | religious_affiliation = Seventh-day Adventist Church | established = 1918 | principal = Dr. Glen Baker | faculty = 30 | enrollment = 428 | international_students = | avg_class_size = 25 | ratio = one to twelve | hours_in_day = | campus_size = {{convert|80|acre|m2}} | athletics = | athletic_conference = Florida Conference | mascot = Panther | newspaper = Reflections | yearbook = The Mirror | graduates = About 11,000 | website = {{URL|https://www.forestlakeacademy.org}} | Classes_offered = | College_Bound = | colors = Blue, Gold, White }}

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'''Forest Lake Academy''' is a private high school outside Orlando, Florida. It is owned and operated by the Florida Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. It is a part of the Seventh-day Adventist education system, the world's second-largest Christian school system.<ref>https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2010/1115/For-real-education-reform-take-a-cue-from-the-Adventists"the second largest Christian school system in the world has been steadily outperforming the national average&nbsp;– across all demographics."</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.religionfacts.com/christianity/denominations/seventh_day_adventist.htm |title=Seventh-day Adventists - Christian Denomination &#124; Religion Facts |access-date=2016-03-18 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150323223151/http://www.religionfacts.com/christianity/denominations/seventh_day_adventist.htm |archive-date=2015-03-23 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Department of Education, Seventh-day Adventist Church |url=http://education.gc.adventist.org/about.html |access-date=2010-06-18 |archive-date=2017-10-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171017005947/http://education.gc.adventist.org/about.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.adventist.org/2003/04/worl-church-a-closer-look-at-higher-eucatio.html |title=World Church: A Closer Look at Higher Education |first1=Wendi |last1=Rogers |first2=Mark A. |last2=Kellner |date=April 1, 2003 |publisher=Adventist News Network |access-date=2010-06-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724224535/http://news.adventist.org/2003/04/worl-church-a-closer-look-at-higher-eucatio.html |archive-date=2011-07-24 }}</ref>

==History==

===The Lake Winyah School=== The first academy established by the Florida Conference of Seventh-day Adventists was '''Lake Winyah Academy''' <ref>Alternate names: Lake Winyah School; Lake Winyah Intermediate School; Orlando Intermediate School</ref> in 1918 <ref>[http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/FT/FT19181016-V10-35__B.pdf#view=fit ''Florida News Items.'' Field Tidings. October 16, 1918, p. 3]</ref> in Orlando, Florida. In March 1918, the Florida Conference Committee and the Sanitarium Board met. William H. Branson, L. H. Wood, J. A. Tucker, and W. E. Abernathy were present. They planned for the opening of the school. This included the construction of two buildings: a main building and a dormitory. Both these buildings were to be built as economically as possible; later on more permanent structures could be built. The conference and sanitarium leadership served on the board of the school. They planned to open in fall 1918. This first school was to be located between Winyah and Estelle Lakes.<ref>[http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/FT/FT19180320-V10-05__B.pdf#view=fit Florida Notes. Field Tidings. March 20, 1918, p. 3]</ref> Adventist University of Health Sciences (formerly Florida Hospital College of Health Sciences) is located there now.<ref>[http://www.adu.edu Adventist University of Health Sciences]</ref>

===Forest Lake Academy=== The growing school moved outside the city to its current location in 1926 and was renamed Forest Lake Academy. The first classes were held in the farm house of the newly acquired {{convert|160|acre|km2|adj=on}} site.<ref>[http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/SUW/SUW19930301-V87-03__B.pdf#view=fit Elbert Anderson. Forest Lake Academy: Where the "Son" Shines Through. Southern Tidings. March, 1993, p. 26]</ref>

==See also== {{Portal|Christianity|Schools|Florida}} * List of Seventh-day Adventist secondary schools * Seventh-day Adventist education

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{Official website|https://www.forestlakeacademy.org/}}

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Category:High schools in Orange County, Florida Category:Private high schools in Florida Category:Educational institutions established in 1918 Category:1918 establishments in Florida Category:Adventist secondary schools in the United States