Shady Side Academy
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]
Shady Side Academy
Latin: Fide Semper Vincere}
(Faith Always Conquers)
1883
Open
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Bartley P. Griffith Jr.[2]
Robert Shannon Mullin[3]
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200 acres (81 ha)
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Bulldogs[4]
The Shady Side Academy News
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$61.28 million[5]
$36,950 (day)
$59,525 (boarding)[6]
$37 million[5]
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]
Shady Side Academy has four campuses in Pittsburgh with almost 200 acres (81 ha), predominantly in heavily wooded Fox Chapel. Shady Side Academy operates twenty-six campus buildings with a total estimated facilities value of $56.2 million.[36]