Suffield Academy

Suffield Academy
Location
Suffield, Connecticut
Information
Type	Private boarding/day school
Motto	Esse Quam Videri Latin: To be, rather than to seem
Founded	1833
President	Frederic B. Powers III
Head teacher	Charles Cahn III
Faculty	90 teachers
Enrollment	415 students
Average class size	10 students
Student to teacher ratio	5:1
Campus	368 acres (149 ha)
Color(s)	Black      Orange
Athletics	19 interscholastic sports teams
Mascot	Tiger
Average SAT scores	1790
Website	Suffield Academy

Suffield Academy is a private preparatory school located in Suffield, Connecticut, United States. It was founded in 1833 to train young men for ministry in the Baptist Church. The tuition fees for students are currently $58 000 for boarders and $38 700 for day students. The headmaster is Charlie Cahn, who has been in post since 2004. The school is coeducational with slightly more than half the students (55%) being boys. Approximately 15% of the student body are students of color, 18% overseas students and 67% board.

Thirteen dormitories on campus house the boarding students with 90 faculty members serving as dormitory and student advisors as well as teachers and coaches.

In the mid-1820s, the Connecticut Baptists had announced their intention to charter a private school, with whichever town could raise $10,000 receiving the charter. The residents of Suffield, eager to have a school in their town, were successful in raising enough money to win the charter. The school's first building, later known as the Old South Building, was erected and the school opened under the title of Connecticut Baptist Literary Institute in 1829.

The early mission of the school was to educate young men for the ministry. Despite its founding links to the Baptist Church, the institute quickly moved towards a non-denominational model and in 1833 was renamed Connecticut Literary Institute, locally known as CLI. The institute was the only high school in town and local government funding helped to pay for each student's tuition.

From its founding, Suffield has shown a commitment to diversity; international students were welcomed in the 1830s, girls gained admittance in 1843, and African American boys and girls joined the community in the late 19th century. The school was renamed the Suffield School in 1916 and was restructured as a "Military School for Boys" two years later, featuring military-style regimentation, field maneuvers and riflery.

In 1937 the school was renamed Suffield Academy.

The first building of the Institute was the Old South Building. It stood on the property which is now the grounds of the S. Kent Legare Library. In 1894, the town of Suffield, with its long history of libraries, had begun the process of erecting a new public library. This drew the attention of Sydney A. Kent, a Connecticut Literary Institute graduate and Chicago businessman. Mr. Kent offered the town $35,000 to build the new library, under the provision that he could dedicate it in the name of his parents. With Kent's assistance, the town purchased the property from the Institute and, in 1897, began the construction of the new library with the demolition of Old South. Its architect was Chicago-based Daniel Burnham. On November 1, 1899, the new building was dedicated as the Kent Memorial Library.

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