History
Oakwood Adventist Academy was founded in 1896 as Oakwood Industrial School. The high school served as a boarding school and preparatory school operated by Oakwood University for the majority of its existence. In 1974, the academy became a day school operated by a local constituency of Seventh-day Adventist churches called the Huntsville Area Seventh-day Adventist (HASDA) Churches. The school has had many names including Oakwood Manual Training School, Oakwood College Academy, Oakwood Christian Academy, and Oakwood Academy. The administration and constituency voted to change the name of the school to Oakwood Adventist Academy in 2002. Today, the school is governed by the Huntsville Area Seventh-day Adventist Church (HASDA) School Board and the South Central Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
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