Vine Hill Academy was a private secondary school in Clarksville, Halifax County, North Carolina (later called Scotland Neck).

[2] The academy was named for Vine Hill, the home of Baker in what is now called Scotland Neck, North Carolina.

[5][4] Franceway Ranna Cossitt, who founded Cumberland College in 1826, served as Vine Hill Academy's principal starting in 1815.

[6] Episcopal minister John H. Norment was charge of the school from September 1829 to June 1930; his wife oversaw the new female division.

[7] As the State of North Carolina expanded its public education system, Vine Hill Academy lost students.

[10] The Vine Hill Male Academy campus, consisting of 4 acres (1.6 ha), was sold to Prince at auction on May 7, 1898.

[15] The academy's trustees leased the campus to Halifax County for a graded public school that opened in the fall of 1903.

[1] Vine Hill Academy was located in Scotland Neck, Halifax County, North Carolina on 40 acres (16 ha)that were donated by trustee Marmaduke Norfleet.

[5] In 1837, courses for male students included arithmetic, grammar, geography, history, reading, spelling, and writing for $8 per session.

[5] Male students could take algebra, geometry, Greek, Latin, logic, navigation, rhetoric, and surveying for $12.50 a session.