About Us
About Our School
Foothill Adventist School serves as a private co-educational school owned and operated by the Central California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. It is accredited by the Pacific Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. It offers an education from Kindergarten through grade eight.
The policies, regulations and general management of our school are determined by a board chosen from the Milpitas Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Students from Milpitas make up much of the school's population. However, a growing number of community students and parents are finding our curriculum stimulating, both academically and spiritually. Foothill Adventist School remains dedicated to the task of providing each child with a valuable educational experience by fostering growth and development in every aspect of a child's life.
Our school is just one of the 4,400 schools, colleges, and universities operated by the Seventh-day Adventist church, which has the largest world-wide Protestant school system. Integrated within this school's teaching are the fundamental teachings of the Seventh-day Adventist church. These teachings include:
- Belief in the Holy Scriptures, both Old and New Testaments, as the written Word of God.
- Trinity of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit as three Co-eternal persons united as one.
- Humanity is involved in a great controversy between Christ and Satan.
- The life, death, and resurrection of Christ.
- Salvation is a gift of God given freely to all who believe in Jesus Christ.
- Baptism by immersion is an outward expression of a spiritual death to sin and resurrection to a new life in Christ.
- The observance of all God’s commandments, including the Sabbath day, from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday.
- God bestows spiritual gifts to every member of His Church. One of these gifts is the Spirit of Prophecy as exemplified in the writings of Ellen G. White.
- The Church is the organized body of believers whom Christ commissioned to carry the gospel to every nation, kindred, tongue, and people.
- We are stewards in all that God has entrusted to our care. We acknowledge this by our service and returning of our tithes and offerings.
- We are called to a lifestyle that will reflect the principles of Heaven with respect to our health, appearance, and conduct.
- Death is an unconscious state for everyone until the righteous are resurrected by our Lord at His second coming and the wicked are resurrected at the end of the Millennium to receive everlasting judgment.
- Jesus is coming a second time to take all the righteous to Heaven.
- This earth will be re-created as an eternal home for the redeemed.
Each faculty member at Foothill is dedicated to teaching and upholding these basic beliefs as a part of the education of the whole person so that every student may be "thoroughly equipped for every good work".
Philosophy and Objectives
To Seventh-day Adventists, true education goes far beyond the confines of the classroom. It involves a cooperative effort between the home, the church, and the school. It means much more than a preparation to meet the challenges of life on this earth. It integrates a balanced development of four primary aspects of a child's life: mental, physical, spiritual, and social.
It is our purpose at Foothill to provide a sound, Christ-centered, uniquely Seventh-day Adventist education. Each student is taught to cherish the practical teachings of the Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy, maintaining at the same time a high degree of academic excellence.
We believe that every member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church should be involved in the education of our youth, who are the future of this church, and that they should support it not only with their prayers, but also with their financial means.
Based on this philosophy, it is our conviction that Foothill has been ordained of God and commissioned to fulfill the following objectives:
- Lead every student to accept Jesus Christ as their personal Savior.
- Guide each student to develop a daily devotional life.
- Develop a love and respect for God's Word and the Spirit of Prophecy.
- Teach the essential doctrines of the scriptures and how to share them in a Christ-centered way.
- Teach students the science of salvation and how they can overcome sin through Jesus.
- Encourage useful work experience.
- Promote communication between teachers, students, and parents, giving all a voice in the planning and problem solving process.
- Guide in one's personal appearance.
- Help student's to understand and appreciate the Biblical principles of nutrition and to choose a lifestyle in harmony with them.
- Provide recreation as much as possible in an outdoor environment.
- Provide a program of positive discipline which will encourage self-government.
- Develop an appreciation for music that honors God.
- Provide a learning environment in the classroom that is conducive to the highest levels of academic achievement.
- Promote habits of exercise and hygiene in caring for the body as the temple of the Holy Spirit.
- Provide opportunities for students to socialize in a manner that will draw them closer to each other as brothers and sisters in Christ and closer to His church family.
