Glynn Academy

Glynn Academy
Address
Map
1001 Mansfield Street

Brunswick
,
Georgia
31520

United States
Coordinates31°08′50″N 81°29′24″W / 31.147165°N 81.489996°W / 31.147165; -81.489996
Glynn Academy
The 1840 building
LocationCorner of Monck and Norwich Streets, Brunswick, GA
Coordinates31°08′55″N 81°29′26″W / 31.14864°N 81.49062°W / 31.14864; -81.49062
Built1840
Architectural styleGreek Revival
NRHP reference No.11000775[1]
Added to NRHPNovember 2, 2011
Information
TypePublic
Founded1788
School boardGlynn County Board of Education
School districtGlynn County School District
SuperintendentScott Spence
PrincipalMatthew Blackstone
Teaching staff108.30 (FTE)[2]
Grades9–12
Enrollment1,823 (2022-2023)[2]
Student to teacher ratio16.83[2]
LanguageEnglish
CampusUrban
Color(s)Red and White   
AthleticsGHSA 1-AAAAA
MascotRed Terrors
RivalBrunswick High School
YearbookHigh Tide
WebsiteGlynn Academy

Glynn Academy (GA) is an American public high school in Brunswick, Georgia, United States, enrolling 1,900 students in grades 9–12.[3] Along with Brunswick High School, it is one of two high schools in the Glynn County School System. Glynn Academy offers technical, academic, and Advanced Placement programs and is accredited by the Georgia Department of Education and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.[3][4] The school has consistently been ranked among the top public high schools in the United States by Newsweek.[5][6]

Chartered by an act of the Georgia General Assembly on February 1, 1788,[7] Glynn Academy is the second-oldest public high school outside of New England and the seventh-oldest public high school in the United States;[8] at its inception, the school embraced all grades of primary and secondary education.[9] The first recorded building was built in 1819 on a tract of land known as Academy Range.[8] A new building was erected in 1840 on Hillsborough Square, the present location of the school.[8] From 1819 to 1840, the school was known as Glynn County Academy.[10] Because of an unsatisfactory courthouse, the county's superior and inferior courts often met at the school from 1825 to 1884.[11] In 1889, the Annex Building was constructed,[9] followed by the Prep Junior High School in 1909 (later annexed to the school as the Prep Building),[8][12] and the Glynn Academy Building in 1923.[8] The original 1840 structure was moved out of the city in 1915;[8] in 2008, it was relocated to the current campus where it serves as an interpretive museum.[13] The 1840 building itself is on the National Register of Historic Places and three other buildings (the Prep Building, 1905–09; the G.A. building, 1922; and the Annex, 1889) are contributing properties to the Brunswick Old Town Historic District.

The school, in addition to serving sections of Brunswick, serves Brookman, Blythe Island, Sea Island, and St. Simons Island.[14][15] It also serves sections of Country Club Estates and Dock Junction.[16][17]

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  9. ^ a b "Annex Building fire". Coastal Georgia Genealogy and History. Retrieved August 8, 2009.
  10. ^ Barefoot, Patricia (November 8, 2000). Brunswick: The City by the Sea. Arcadia Publishing. p. 108. ISBN 978-0-7385-0642-5.
  11. ^ "Glynn County Courthouse". Digital Library of Georgia. Retrieved August 8, 2009.
  12. ^ "Prep Building". Emporis. Archived from the original on July 19, 2014. Retrieved August 8, 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  13. ^ Stepzinski, Teresa (June 11, 2008). "Historic school goes home to Glynn Academy campus". The Florida Times-Union. Retrieved August 8, 2009.
  14. ^ "High School Zones Map Archived 2019-03-12 at the Wayback Machine." Glynn County School System. Retrieved on March 13, 2019.
  15. ^ "2010 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP (INDEX): St. Simons CDP, GA." U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on March 13, 2019. Pages: 1, 2, and 3.
  16. ^ "2010 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Country Club Estates CDP, GA." U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on March 13, 2019.
  17. ^ "2010 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP (INDEX): Dock Junction CDP, GA." U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on March 13, 2019. Pages 1 and 2.