It is owned and operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

[2][3][4][5] In September 1943, 17 pupils ranging from grades one to four began their education in one classroom in the basement of the building then known as the Bay View Apartments.

In 1953 the school was transferred to its campus and its 129 pupils relocated in a remodeled two-storey building, on the purchased Sandringham property.

[6] Careful planning of the upgrading of the school's status to a Junior Academy was given by the Mission and at the Biennial Session of 1965, it was voted that a new wing be erected.

As a result, Bermuda Institute, by action of the Mission Biennial Session held May 1967, it has been a K-12 school.