King’s Academy

Specialties

The King’s Academy is a private Christian day and boarding school serving grades PreK — 12.

History

Established in 1880.

The King’s Academy’s roots draw from rich East Tennessee soil in the mid-​nineteenth century. Farmers who settled in the scenic and fertile foothills between the Tennessee River Valley and the southern Appalachian Mountains desired a good education for their children. In the spring of 1880, their passion spawned a log-​cabin school near the headwaters of Boyds Creek in Sevier County not far from the Blount County and Knox County lines.

A school of sorts, called Owl College by locals, had been operating in the area as far back as 1840. But the effort took on new meaning when a charter with the State of Tennessee was drafted, and students formally enrolled in the fall of 1881.