Horse Creek Academy was founded in 2002 under the name Midland Valley Preparatory School in Graniteville, S.C.  A small institution, it started with a low number of students in grades 4K-6 set up in small portable units.  The closeness of the faculty, staff, students, and parents fostered a supportive community that was in tune with every child’s individual educational experience. MVP soon expanded to include education in 7th and 8th grade, offering a complete middle-level education based on its philosophy of choice in education and individual attention. In the fall of 2013, under a new direction, the MVP administration and executive board saw that it was difficult for the nurturing faculty to carry out its important mission in such a small space.  The school was created to give parents and students a worthy choice in free public education, so they decided that an expansion would provide the means to do so. Plans to buy a new facility started taking shape at the beginning of 2014, and the purchase of a property in Aiken, housing an unfinished school, was made in April of that year. Once plans were in motion to purchase the new facility, the decision to change the name of the school was made. Midland Valley Preparatory School became Horse Creek Academy to signify both the school’s journey into the horse country of Aiken, S.C. and its roots in the Horse Creek area.  In the fall of 2020, Horse Creek expanded again to include High School securing a new bond to add two new buildings to the campus.  We currently serve students PK - 12th grade!  We have dual enrollment partnerships with both the University of South Carolina, Aiken as well as Aiken Technical College. We also lead very differently.  We lead using a collective approach and our administrators teach daily while we have teachers helping lead the vision for the school.  We are a family here at HCA, hence the tagline, #wearethevillage.  

Our mission is to create an innovative and challenging learning environment that teaches the whole learner through the pillars of connection, flexibility, and service.