Cape Fear Academy

Cape Fear Academy
Location
Map
3900 S College Road

Wilmington
,
North Carolina
28412

United States
Coordinates34°10′14″N 77°53′36″W / 34.170651°N 77.893376°W / 34.170651; -77.893376
Information
TypePrivate
Mottoes
  • "Go Further."
  • "Qui Erimus Nunc Fimus"[2] (Latin)
  • (What We Shall Be, Now We Are Becoming)
EstablishedSeptember 11, 1967 (57 years ago) (September 11, 1967)[1]
CEEB code344347
HeadmasterEdward M. Ellison[3]
GradesPK3–12
GenderCo-ed
Age range3 to 18
Enrollment720[4]
Student to teacher ratio9:1[6]
LanguageEnglish
Campus size47 acres (19 ha)
Color(s)Blue and gold
  
AthleticsNCISAA
MascotCaptain Fear[5]
NicknameHurricanes
Tuition$16,800–24,350[7]
Websitewww.capefearacademy.org

Cape Fear Academy is a private, coeducational PK3–12 school in Wilmington, North Carolina, that was established on September 11, 1967, as a segregation academy.[1][8][9] It was named for Cape Fear Military Academy, an independent school for boys in Wilmington that operated from 1868 until 1916.[10] The present school's first class graduated in 1971.[1]

  1. ^ a b c "2022 - 2023 History of Cape Fear Academy". Google Docs. Retrieved September 14, 2022.
  2. ^ "Mission, Philosophy, and Principles". Google Docs. Retrieved September 14, 2022.
  3. ^ "Faculty & Staff". Cape Fear Academy. Retrieved September 14, 2022.
  4. ^ "Cape Fear Academy Buys 11 Acres On S. College Road For Over $5M". WilmingtonBiz. Retrieved September 14, 2022.
  5. ^ Cape Fear Academy (January 26, 2024). "Introducing... Captain Fear!!". Retrieved February 11, 2024 – via YouTube.
  6. ^ "Cape Fear Academy". Cape Fear Academy. Retrieved September 14, 2022.
  7. ^ "Admission". Cape Fear Academy. Retrieved February 4, 2024.
  8. ^ Eaton, Hubert Arthur (1984). Every Man Should Try. Bonaparte Press. p. 94. [Lee Shelton] declared that the Klan was raising funds to establish a private school, Cape Fear Academy, for white students
  9. ^ Godwin, John L (2000). Black Wilmington and the North Carolina way: portrait of a community in the era of civil rights protest. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America. p. 206. ISBN 0761816828. OCLC 43648608. The reopening of Cape Fear Academy showed the extent to which wealthier white citizens of the locality sought, through private education, to retain the conservativism of the bygone days of the nineteenth century
  10. ^ "Cape Fear Academy's Early History". www.cfhi.net. Retrieved September 14, 2022.