Southland Academy is a private, co-educational, non-sectarian Christian college preparatory day school in Americus, Georgia, United States.

It was reported in 1979 that most white parents in the area sent their children to Southland rather than the local public school system, which at the time was 80% black and the subject of boycotts and criticism over alleged neglect and underfunding.

[7] One businessman said he would "dig ditches" to earn money to pay tuition at Southland Academy and avoid sending his children to racially integrated public school.

Furthermore, the Charles F. Crisp Media and Technology Center has holds two computer labs along with a library.

There is also the Jane L. Comer Music Room, the Melvin T. Kinslow gymnatorium, and a lower-school gymnasium.

Sports include football, baseball, softball, basketball, wrestling, cross-country running, track and field, golf, swimming, tennis, girls' soccer, and cheerleading.

The pageant was started in 1989 by "Mothers of Motivated Students," now part of Southland's parent-teacher organization.