Seventh-day Adventists conduct their own schools--elementary, secondary, and higher--for the express purpose of transmitting to their youth their own ideals, beliefs, attitudes, appreciations, habits, and customs, as taught by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The government has an excellent public school system for making good citizens; but in addition to being patriotic, law-abiding citizens, Seventh-day Adventists want their youth to be loyal Seventh-day Adventists. There is, peculiar to the Church, a body of knowledge, appreciations and ideals that must be transmitted to the youth in order for the church to continue to exist. "Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation." Joel 1:3.

Seventh-day Adventists founded Madison Academy to prepare young people for the challenges of this life and for the glories of eternity. This preparation is an integral part of the plan of salvation whereby God seeks to bring man back into harmony with His will so that man's moral nature may again reflect His image. Progress toward this goal begins in the Christian home, but is further enhanced within the distinctive atmosphere of a Christian school which acknowledges God as the source of all true wisdom. Therefore, Madison Academy's curriculum is rooted in the Word of God and provides a special opportunity for balanced physical, mental, social, and vocational education, and a spiritual development not available in secular institutions.

The perfection of a balanced character is the goal of education at Madison Academy. It is the sincere desire of the staff that each student will make significant progress toward this goal during his school years here.