The Seventh Day Adventist School was started in Santa Anna in 1965 to serve children in the local Adventist congregation and any one else in the community.  In 1977, David Morris taught thirteen children in seven grades (there were no third graders).  The school is taught in a multi-grade classroom concept; older children help younger ones and learn much themselves in the process; younger children listening to the instructions given to students in the higher grades, often pick up information that helps them when they reach the higher grade.  The Santa Anna Church school is actually part of the school system operated by the Seventh Day Adventist Church.  Small schools like the one in Santa Anna do not suffer for lack of funds to obtain the best services, because all Adventist schools operate as a single school system, the benefits that are received by the larger schools are enjoyed by the smaller schools as well.  The Santa Anna Adventist Elementary School is located south of Santa Anna on the Trickham road.