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= Adventist Academy Cebu = Adventist Academy Cebu (Formerly: East Visayan Academy) is a coeducational boarding school on the senior high school owned and operated by the Central Visayan Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist. This was established in response to the need of Seventh-day Adventist young people of the Central and East Visayan Missions for Christian Education.

The school was opened on June 23, 1931, in F. Ramos Street, Cebu City, with Mrs W. Riffel and Silvestre Ygay as teachers, and with six students enrolled it the first year of high school. Classwork was not recognized by the government. The next year (1932-1933) the school operated in the Cebu City SDA chapel, with 47 pupils in the elementary graded and 7 in the first and second year of high school. However, for the next three years it was only an elementary school.

In 1936 the Philippine Union Mission authorized operation as a government accredited first year of high school. For the school year 1938-1939 the school was moved to the present site on 8 hectares of land along the highway 9 kilometers south of Cebu City. About 30 students enrolled in the first year of the high school course. An Administration building, two dormitories, a dining hall, teachers' cottages were constructed. During the 1939-1940 school year the institution became full-fledged SDA Academy, serving the East Visayan Mission and also the Mindanao Mission until the Mindanao Mission Academy was established in 1947.

During the World War II, the school was closed; but in 1946 the buildings were rebuilt and school reopened, with U. M. Oliva as principal. Two years later the Academy was granted full recognition by the Department of Education of the Republic of the Philippines; it also became a member of the Far Eastern Association of SDA College and Secondary Schools. As Seventh-day Adventist institution the people who pioneered in the establishment of East Visayan Academy, and also those who have and will become a part of her believe that "true education means more than a preparation for the life that now is. It has to do with the whole period of existence possible to man. It is the harmonious development of the physical, the mental, and spiritual powers. It prepares the student for the joy of wider service in the world to come". Looking back through the years what God has wrought for East Visayan Academy, no one could but exclaimed "0 Mighty God, how great Thou art...

It was during the school year 1979-1980 that the enrollment soared to the 1,000 mark from the 300-600 range the previous years. The teaching force reached the 20th level. Religious and social activities always rang alive and added meaning mid color to Christian living for both teachers and students. From then on, the enrollment never broke loose of the 900-1,000 capacity until when public night and day school mushroomed around the vicinity that enrollment went down to the 600 level. Today, East Visayan Academy stands happy to serve the youth of all creeds and races that seek true education. Teachers and students cling to the objective - "to restore in man the image of his Maker, to bring him back to the perfection in which he was created, to promote the development of the body, mind and soul, that the divine purpose in his creation might be realized... Higher than the highest human thought can reach is God's ideal for His children. Godliness --- Godlikeness is the goal to be reached".