San Antonio Academy
| San Antonio Academy of Texas | |
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| Location | |
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San Antonio, TX USA |
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| Coordinates | 29°27′03″N 98°29′33″W / 29.450793°N 98.49238°WCoordinates: 29°27′03″N 98°29′33″W / 29.450793°N 98.49238°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Private |
| Established | 1886 |
| Headmaster | John Webster |
| Faculty | 41 |
| Enrollment | 333 students |
| Average class size | 15 students |
| Student to teacher ratio | 8:1 |
| Color(s) | Blue and White |
| Athletics | soccer, basketball, lacrosse, tennis, football, cross-country, track & field |
| Mascot | Wildcat |
| Website | http://www.sa-academy.org/ |
The San Antonio Academy is a private military school for boys located in San Antonio, Texas, offering instruction from prekindergarten through the eighth grade for day students. The school is accredited by the Independent Schools Association of the Southwest.
Founded by pioneer Texas educator William Belcher Seeley, it opened in 1886 at a facility located on East Houston Street near downtown. It had an enrollment of over seventy five students by the end of its first year. After two years, Seeley moved the school to a property located on the west side of San Pedro Park on North Flores Street. This new location permitted the school to use the park as a playground and drill field for the students, who also enjoyed the city swimming pool located near there. The Academy quickly attracted a talented faculty, including Isaac Joslin Cox who later became an historian on the faculty of Northwestern University. In 1891 the school received a state charter as a private, non-profit institution.
In 1904, Professor W. W. Bondurant, known thereafter to several generations of alumni as "Prof B." purchased the Academy. A native of Virginia, he was a devout Presbyterian layperson and a former member of the faculty at Austin College in Sherman, Texas. For the next seventy-five years, the San Antonio Academy would have a close, unofficial relationship with both the Presbyterian Church and Austin College.
The Academy grew rapidly under Bondurant’s leadership. It became the first private school in Texas to be certified by the University of Texas as an approved pre-collegiate institution. Until the 1920s, the Academy offered high school co-education to boys and girls. In 1926, however, the structure of the school changed when the Bondurant family purchased the West Texas Military Academy from the Episcopal Diocese of San Antonio. The Academy’s high school department merged with the military academy under the new name Texas Military Institute, which began accepting only boys at the high school level. At this same time, the San Antonio Academy also became a male only school up to the eighth grade, a structure that it has continued to the present day. Female students were encouraged to attend Saint Mary's Hall, then a girls-only private school operated by the Episcopal Church in San Antonio. Texas Military Institute and the San Antonio Academy remained jointly under the control of the Bondurant family until 1954, when Texas Military Institute was sold back to the Episcopal Diocese of San Antonio.
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