 The school is accredited by the Association of Christian Schools International and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.Following a temporary location started with help from Roy Gustafson and her other friends at "the Baptist Church on 22nd Avenue South" in St. Petersburg in 1952, Ruth Munce founded Grace Livingston Hill Memorial School in 1953, naming it after her mother, an author of more than 100 
Christian-themed romance novels.Munce felt called by God to establish this private educational facility because no other Christian school existed in Pinellas County, so she purchased a site, an old chicken farm off Seminole Boulevard on the outskirts of St. Petersburg, Florida.