It is a part of the Moore County public schools system.

This is different from the traditional school where a course lasts a semester or a year long which would include a teacher doing a lecture for the course.

Then for a short time until the end of the 2000–2001 school year, it was known as Moore Central before the name changed again to Pinckney Academy.

The facility used to be located at the present day Mac's Anytime breakfast on US Highway 15/501 in Carthage.

It is now located just off Dowd Road on Pinckney Street in Carthage.