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Mercersburg Academy

Mercersburg Academy (formerly Marshall College and Mercersburg College) is an independent college-preparatory boarding and day high school in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, in the United States. Founded in 1893, the school enrolls approximately 444 students in grades 9–12, including postgraduates, on a campus about 90 miles northwest by north of Washington, D.C.

Mercersburg Academy

Marshall College (1836-65)
Mercersburg College (1865-93)

Latin: Integritas, Virilitas, Fidelitas
(Integrity, Virility, Fidelity)

1836 (1836)

Currently operational

392570

Quentin McDowell

144

58.3 (FTE)[1]

9–12

444[1] (2017-2018)

81[1]

117[1]

114[1]

132[1]

12

7.6[1]

6[1]

300 acres (120 ha)

Blue and white   

24 varsity teams

Blue Storm

MSA,[2] NAIS,[1] TABS,[1] PAIS

$397 million[3]

$34 million[3]

$310–$1,360

$72,925 (boarding)
$45,600 (day)[4]

$44.65 million

15 acres (6.1 ha)

1836

Multiple

Classical Revival, Late Gothic Revival

June 21, 1984

School structure[edit]

The school now offers 170 courses and has 106 faculty members (including 77 with master's degrees and four with doctorates). Mercersburg serves grades 9–12 and postgraduate. As of the 2019–2020 school year, 442 students have enrolled: 51 percent boys and 49 percent girls. Eighty-four percent of the students are boarding students, while 16 percent are day students. The school has a 33 percent acceptance rate.[8]

United States Navy officer and physician

Joel Thompson Boone

United States Navy officer

Eugene B. Fluckey

United States Marine Corps aviator

Ralph Talbot

Official website

National Center for Education Statistics data for Mercersburg Academy

The Association of Boarding Schools profile

Time magazine story on First Lady Coolidge's laying of Irvine Memorial Chapel cornerstone at the Academy