Southern New England Conference’s Virtual Academy (SVA)—local Adventist education for grades 9 to 12—is slated to open three campuses across the Southern New England Conference territory in August 2025. SNEC education department created SVA to address the lack of secondary Adventist education in the SNEC territory. In partnership with Atlanta Adventist Academy (AAA), SVA plans to open campuses in the Bridgeport, Connecticut, area; Hartford, Connecticut, and Taunton, Massachusetts.
SNEC education department will provide the venue and hire the classroom facilitators who supervise the students, and AAA will provide real-time, virtual education. AAA is a college-prep institution located in Atlanta, Georgia, and is accredited through the Georgia-Cumberland Conference, the Union Conference, the North American Division, and Middle States Association, the leading college prep program accrediting body on the East Coast. AAA has offered totally immersed, real-time education since 2006 and is one of the leaders in virtual education in North America.
AAA’s program offers Advanced Placement (AP), college-prep, and dual credit courses, and specializes in connecting mind, body, and spirit. They work hard at con-necting students from all over the Midwest and East Coast to each other, to a caring faculty, to amazing technology, to other cultures, and most importantly, to the God that brings everyone together.
While enrolled in SVA, students will be able to participate in clubs, internships, and outreach programs, including two SNEC-supervised trips to the AAA campus in Georgia, which are covered by tuition.
For information about tuition, financial aid, and other questions, please contact Brian Allison, SNEC Associate Superintendent of Education and SVA principal, at ballison@sneconline.org or (978) 365-4551 ext. 610.
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Education Department, Southern New England Conference
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