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| Shady Side Academy | |
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423 Fox Chapel Road Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15238-2296 United States | |
| Coordinates | 40°31′21″N 79°52′58″W / 40.5225°N 79.88278°W |
| Information | |
| School type | Independent boarding & day college-preparatory school |
| Motto | Latin: Fide Semper Vincere} (Faith Always Conquers) |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Nonsectarian[1] |
| Established | 1883 |
| Status | Open |
| CEEB code | 393901 |
| NCES School ID | 01631942[1] |
| President | Bartley P. Griffith Jr.[2] |
| Chair | Robert Shannon Mullin[3] |
| Grades | PK–12 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Enrollment | 1,007[1] (2019–2020) |
| • Pre-kindergarten | 78[1] |
| • Kindergarten | 52[1] |
| • Grade 1 | 56[1] |
| • Grade 2 | 55[1] |
| • Grade 3 | 53[1] |
| • Grade 4 | 43[1] |
| • Grade 5 | 50[1] |
| • Grade 6 | 56[1] |
| • Grade 7 | 62[1] |
| • Grade 8 | 75[1] |
| • Grade 9 | 94[1] |
| • Grade 10 | 120[1] |
| • Grade 11 | 118[1] |
| • Grade 12 | 95[1] |
| Student to teacher ratio | 7.5[1] |
| Hours in school day | 9.5[1] |
| Campuses | 4 |
| Campus size | 200 acres (81 ha) |
| Color(s) | Old gold & navy |
| Athletics conference | PIAA, WPIAL |
| Nickname | Bulldogs[4] |
| Accreditation | MSA, NAIS,[1] TABS[1] |
| Newspaper | The Shady Side Academy News |
| Yearbook | Academian |
| Endowment | $61.28 million[5] |
| Annual tuition | $36,950 (day) $59,525 (boarding)[6] |
| Revenue | $37 million[5] |
| Nobel laureates | Philip Showalter Hench |
| Website | www |
Shady Side Academy is an independent preparatory school Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania in Greater Pittsburgh. Founded in 1883 as an all-male night school in the Shadyside neighborhood of Pittsburgh, the academy now offers a secular coeducational PK–12 program on four campuses in the city and its suburbs, including a boarding program in the Croft and Morewood Houses of its Senior School Campus.[7]
Formed to provide for the education of the sons of newly moneyed industrialists of Pittsburgh's East End,[8] the academy counts the Frick and Mellon families among its early patrons.[9][10] In 1922 the academy expanded to its sprawling Georgian Senior School campus in the then-countryside of Fox Chapel under the influence of the Country Day School movement.[11] The academy merged with the Arnold School in 1940 to form its Junior School campus[12] and added its stone Tudor manor-style Middle School campus in 1958,[13] emerging in its current three-school system. The academy admitted its first female students in 1973.[14]
Shady Side Academy enrolls approximately one thousand students annually and is a member of the National Association of Independent Schools and the Association of Boarding Schools. The school is a member of the Chewonki Foundation's Maine Coast Semester at Chewonki in Wiscasset, Maine, CITYterm at the Masters' School, and the High Mountain Institute's HMI Semester in Leadville, Colorado, and sends a significant number of students to both programs annually.[15]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u "Search for Private Schools – School Detail for Shady Side Academy". National Center for Education Statistics. Institute of Education Sciences. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
- ^ "Welcome From the President". Academy Leadership. Shady Side Academy. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
- ^ "Officers of the Board". Board of Trustees. Shady Side Academy. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
- ^ "Mascot Search". Athletics. Shady Side Academy. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
- ^ a b "Form 990" (PDF). Tax Exempt Organization Search. Internal Revenue Service. 2019.
- ^ "2022–2023 Tuition & Fees". Affording SSA. Shady Side Academy. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
- ^ Silver, Jonathan L. (2004). Approaching the Pinnacle of Privilege: The History of Shady Side Academy, 1883-Present (Ph.D.). Carnegie Mellon University. p. 2.
- ^ David Cannadine, Mellon: An American Life (New York: Random House, 2008), 105.
- ^ Quentin R. Skrabec, Henry Clay Frick: the Life of the Perfect Capitalist (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010), 154.
- ^ David Cannadine, Mellon: An American Life (New York: Random House, 2008), 339.
- ^ “Shadyside Academy Cornerstone Laid,” The Pittsburgh Press, May 3, 1922.
- ^ “Principals in School Merger,” The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 31, 1940.
- ^ "History". Retrieved 2011-12-25.
- ^ Jennifer Bails, "A Legacy of Learning: Shady Side Academy celebrates 125 Years of Academic Excellence," Shady Side Academy Magazine, Winter 2008-2009, 4.
- ^ "Sending Schools for Maine Coast Semester". Chewonki Foundation. Retrieved 2007-05-09.