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Independent boarding & day college-preparatory school
Motto
Latin: Fide Semper Vincere} (Faith Always Conquers)
Religious affiliation(s)
Nonsectarian[1]
Established
1883; 141 years ago (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.shadysideacademy.org
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]
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"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.
^"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.
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