A Fifteen-Year Advancement Plan was adopted in 2002 by Happy Hill Farm Academy's Board of Directors to increase the student body from the approximately 100 residential beds to 225. The new Academic Complex was opened in 2008. The new school contains 60,000 square feet of classrooms, laboratory, library - - everything required to provide a quality learning environment for up to 225 students. A new visitor's center; on the edge of a three-acre memorial garden, provides a place to handle the hundreds of visitors currently coming to the campus each year. An Inn and Training Center; which will be utilized to train those interested in duplicating the Academy program in other regions of the country and allow group meetings and retreats on the campus.
Finally, three new homes for children, giving living space for 24 more boys and girls, were also constructed in 2008. With more than 1,000 applicants turned away each year, the unfolding of the Fifteen-Year Advancement Plan is both exciting and challenging. Exciting -- because of the opportunity to help more children. Challenging -- since most of the students coming to the Academy are indigent, with little or no funding for their education and care. Hence, the Academy's need for ongoing fundraising, and ultimately, a significant endowment.
