| Bacon Academy | |
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| Address | |
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611 Norwich Ave , Connecticut 06415 United States | |
| Coordinates | 41°34′28″N 72°18′10″W / 41.5745°N 72.3029°W |
| Information | |
| Established | 1803 |
| CEEB code | 070110 |
| Principal | Amy Begué |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 759 (2018–19)[1] |
| Mascot | Bobcats |
| Website | ba |
Bacon Academy is a public high school in Colchester, Connecticut, in the United States.
In 1800 a prominent Colchester farmer, Pierpont Bacon,[2] died and left an endowment of thirty-five thousand dollars (with buying power equivalent to that of about two million dollars in 2009).[3] The endowment was to the
- inhabitants of the First Society of Colchester for the purpose of supporting and maintaining a school…for the instruction of Youth in Reading and writing English, in Arithmetic, Mathimaticks, and the Languages, or such other branches of Learning.[4]
This established the academy that bears his name. Bacon Academy's doors opened to the children of Colchester on the first of November 1803 and from that point forward, prepared many young men and women for the life that lay ahead.
- ^ "Bacon Academy". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved November 5, 2020.
- ^ The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fitz-Gilbert Waters, p. 78.
- ^ Inflation Calculator, viewed January 23, 2011.
- ^ Colchester Cemetery, Bigelow Society.