In 1975, the school was moved to its present location on Fremont Street in Calimesa, and was named Mesa Grande SDA Junior Academy. During the school year 1989-90, the eleventh grade was added and officially changed the name to Mesa Grande Academy. The first senior class graduated in 1991. Accreditation of the elementary school by the Pacific Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists extends to 2003. Mesa Grande endeavors to provide a Christian education that will transmit the American culture, academic excellence, and also the heritage which is singularly Seventh-day Adventist.
True education means more than the parcel of a certain course of study.
It means more than a preparation for the life that now is. It has to do with the whole being and with the whole period of existence possible to man. It prepares the student for the joy of service in this world, and for the higher joy of wider service in the world to come. E.G. White, Education , page 13. To impart a thorough knowledge of the Bible as the Word of God.