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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 |
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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]