Edgarton Christian Academy (ECA) was founded and created in 2012 as an elementary school housing students in grades PK2 through 8th grade. The story of Edgarton Christian Academy is one filled with miracles and grace. A group of local parents, knowing that their children’s school would be closing at the end of that school year, would not accept that their children would have to choose another school for the coming school year. They gathered their troops and resources to begin a mission to find a home and create a school whose culture would be similar to the one they were leaving. With the help of the Newfield Board of Education and the Newfield Town Council, Edgarton Christian Academy was founded.

The parents became aware that Edgarton Memorial School would be empty in September 2012 because Newfield students would be attending schools in the Township of Franklin School District. They contacted the leaders of Newfield seeking permission to use their building for the establishment of the new school. The Newfield Board of Education was very eager to work with these parents and did everything they could to ensure that ECA could afford to rent the building and to ensure that the new tenants would be comfortable there.