Sayre School

Sayre School
Location
Lexington, Kentucky United States
Information
Type	Independent
Motto	"Sayre School provides an innovative and inclusive learning environment that empowers students to achieve academic excellence, embrace challenge, and cultivate integrity in order to lead purposeful lives in an ever-changing world."
Established	1854
Head of School	Stephen Manella
Enrollment	550 total (PS-12)
Average class size	average class size is 15 students.
Student to teacher ratio	7:1
Campus	Urban; 10 buildings
Athletics	40 sports teams offered at the Varsity, Junior Varsity and Middle School level(grades 6-12)
Mascot	Spartan
Website	www.sayreschool.org

Sayre School is an independent, co-educational school in Lexington, Kentucky. The school enrolls 550 students from preschool to twelfth grade. It has 68 full-time faculty members.

David A. Sayre, a New Jersey silversmith, migrated to Lexington where he eventually became a successful banker. He and his wife Abby founded the school as an all female boarding school in November 1854 when he met with a group of businessmen met in the offices of former Kentucky Secretary of State George B. Kinkead with several other prominent members of the "McChord" (now First) Presbyterian Church including John C. Breckinridge, drew up the articles of incorporation. Originally named the Transylvania Female Seminary, the school opened first in the old Bank of the U.S. building on the corner of Mill and Church and the Presbyterian minister, Rev. Henry V.D. Nevius was appointed as principal. In the fall of 1855 the school was moved to its current location on Limestone Street (see the National Register of Historic Places information about the expansion of the original building), and the trustees changed the name to the Sayre Female Institute. The Kentucky General Assembly granted its charter in 1856 to confer collegiate degrees.

The school remained an all female boarding school until 1876 when boys were admitted as day scholars in the primary grades under the leadership of Major Henry B. McClennan, principal from 1870 to 1904. In 1914, the nearby preparatory school of Miss Ella M. Williams merged with Sayre, and the name was changed to Sayre College and Conservatory of Music. During the Great Depression, the school struggled, but in 1942 it grew with the incorporation of the Hamilton Grammar School, and changed its name to Sayre School, dropping its collegiate degree program. The pillars outside the main entrance of the campus still show "Sayre College." In 1947 the high school grades were discontinued and the boarding rooms were leased to the University of Kentucky ended. In 1961 an English teacher from Lafayette High School, Donn D. Hollingsworth was appointed headmaster and the high school was resumed in addition to the grammar school, beginning the "New Era."

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