Shady Side Academy
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA |
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| Type | Private, Day & boarding, College-prep |
| Motto | Fide Semper Vincere (Faith Always Conquers) |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Non-sectarian |
| Established | 1883 |
| President | Thomas M. Cangiano |
| Dean | Paul (Elk) Elkins |
| Faculty | 121 |
| Grades | Pre-K – 12 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Enrollment | 939 total 894 day 44 boarding (2014) |
| Color(s) |
Navy blue Old gold |
| Athletics conference | PIAA, WPIAL, Midwest Prep Hockey League |
| Mascot | Indian |
| Endowment | $50 million |
| Tuition | $9,250-13,500 Pre-K $16,250 K $18,975 1st $20,250 2nd-5th $25,100 6th-8th $29,675 9th-12th $13,000 five-day boarding fee $16,500 seven-day boarding fee $2,000 international boarding fee |
| Affiliations | NAIS |
| Website | shadysideacademy.org |
Shady Side Academy is an independent preparatory school located in the Borough of Fox Chapel (suburban Pittsburgh), and in the Point Breeze neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1883 as an all-male day school in the Shadyside neighborhood of Pittsburgh, the Academy now offers a secular coeducational PK–12 program on three campuses in the city and its suburbs, including weekday boarding in the Croft and Morewood Houses of its Senior School Campus.
Formed to provide for the education of the sons of newly-moneyed industrialists of Pittsburgh's East End, the Academy counts the Frick and Mellon families among its early patrons. 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. The Academy merged with the Arnold School in 1940 to form its Junior School campus and added its stone Tudor manor-style Middle School campus in 1958, emerging in its current three-school system. The Academy admitted its first female students in 1973. Though described in character as a bastion of "old-world conservative" traditions, the school has in recent years demonstrated a vigorous commitment to diversity and financial accessibility.
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. The Academy competes locally with the Ellis School, the Winchester Thurston School, and Central Catholic High School, as well as regionally with schools such as the Kiski School and Sewickley Academy, and its lower schools are compared to local primary schools St. Edmund's Academy and the Falk Laboratory School. The school's colors are navy blue and old gold, and the mascot of its athletic teams is the Indian.
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