Lake Forest Academy
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Lake Forest, Illinois United States |
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| Coordinates | 42°14′57″N 87°53′31″W / 42.2492°N 87.8920°WCoordinates: 42°14′57″N 87°53′31″W / 42.2492°N 87.8920°W |
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| Type | Private, Boarding/Day |
| Motto | Many heads, many hearts, and many hands. |
| Established | 1857 |
| Head of School | John Strudwick |
| Faculty | 60 teachers |
| Enrollment | 391 students 195 boarding 196 day (2008/09) |
| Average class size | 12 students |
| Student to teacher ratio | 7:1 |
| Campus size | 150 acres (0.61 km2) |
| Color(s) | Black and orange |
| Athletics | 25 interscholastic sports |
| Mascot | Caxy the Frog |
| Website | lfanet.org |
Lake Forest Academy is a highly selective college preparatory boarding and day school for grades 9 through 12 located on the North Shore in Lake Forest, Illinois, United States. As of the 2008–2009 school year, students at Lake Forest Academy come from 20 states and 28 countries. The current Head of School is Dr. John Strudwick, a former teacher at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. The school is accredited by the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS), Independent Schools Association of the Central States (ISACS), and Secondary School Admission Test Board (SSATB).
The Academy (known as "LFA") was founded in 1857 as a Presbyterian boys preparatory school. Its founding was part of the creation of Lake Forest, Illinois. The Young Ladies' Seminary at Ferry Hall, later simplified to Ferry Hall School, was founded in 1869, and was considered a sister school. Both schools proceeded with their separate missions until the early 1970s, at which point the schools began to coordinate their efforts. A merger of the schools to form the coeducational Lake Forest Academy-Ferry Hall School took place in 1974. Later, the school's name officially became Lake Forest Academy. Lake Forest College was a third component of the original founders' design and opened its doors later although it uses the Academy's founding date as its own. It has no formal relationship with the original schools.
Lake Forest Academy is situated on a wooded 150-acre (0.61 km²) campus, which includes a small lake. There are 30 plus buildings on campus, including Reid Hall (formerly the estate of Chicago meat entrepreneur J. Ogden Armour), Corbin Academic Center, Hutchinson Commons (the dining hall), five dormitories and several faculty housing buildings. The Cressey Center for the Arts (formerly the Fine & Performing Arts Center, or FPAC) is the site for all-school meetings, concerts and student theatrical productions; the Reyes Family Science Center; and a new student union building is presently close to being completed.
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