Cognitive Genesis Study

Knoxville Adventist School is operated by the Knoxville First Seventh-day Adventist church which is a part of the larger body of churches and schools. Today the worldwide Seventh-day Adventist church has over 15 million members in more than 200 countries operating more than 7200 schools worldwide with nearly 1.5 million students. 

Cognitive Genesis is a groundbreaking study that indicates that students in U.S. Adventist schools perform a half-grade level better than the national average for public and private schools. The longer they attend, the greater their academic success according to a four year study following 30,000 students, grades 3–9 and 11 who were enrolled in Adventist schools across North America.

This groundbreaking and rigorous research, conducted by La Sierra University, is validating what parents, teachers, and students involved in Adventist education have known for years—that, on average, Adventist school students perform better. Not only do the students score a half-grade-level higher in all subjects on average, but the more years they attend an Adventist school, the more their average achievement jumps—up to an incredible 73rd percentile.  

So, whether an Adventist school is big or small, students can achieve on a higher level there and it doesn't matter how many students there are, or the number of grades per teacher—or even how many grades are in one classroom together. Students achieve at the same high level—an average of half a grade above predicted in all subjects.