Wayland Academy, Wisconsin
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Beaver Dam, Wisconsin United States |
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| Type | Independent, coeducational boarding/day school |
| Motto | Knowledge and Character |
| Established | 1855 |
| President | Joseph A. Lennertz |
| Faculty | 28 teachers |
| Enrollment | 220 students (72% boarding, 28% day) |
| Average class size | 13 |
| Student to teacher ratio | 7:1 |
| Campus | 65 acres (260,000 m2) |
| Color(s) | Red and White |
| Athletics | 12 interscholastic sports teams |
| Athletics conference | Trailways South |
| Mascot | Big Red |
| Accreditation | ISACS, NCA CASI |
| Yearbook | Pillars |
| Matriculation Rate | 100% of Wayland Academy seniors are accepted to four-year universities |
| Website | www.wayland.org |
Wayland Academy is a private, coeducational college preparatory boarding high school located in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, United States. The student population at the beginning of the 2011-2012 school year was 220.
Wayland Academy was chartered as Beaver Dam Academy by the legislature of Wisconsin Territory in 1847, by a group which included Parker Warren (soon to be elected to the legislature of the newly admitted State of Wisconsin) and other local dignitaries. The charter provided that no religious test could be required of any officer or trustee of the corporation, or of any student.
It was founded as a Baptist university, though it is now a non-denominational high school. The cornerstone of Wayland Hall was laid in 1855, marking the beginning of a new institution aimed at increasing the number of Midwestern students at Baptist seminaries.
Wayland was closed twice, once during the Civil War, and once during the Great Depression. During the 1960s, it became known as Wayland Junior College. After including a middle school in the 1980s, Wayland became the college preparatory high school that it is today. It celebrated its sesquicentennial in 2005.
Camp Beaver Dam, a WWII POW camp, was constructed in the summer of 1944 on the grounds of what is now the Wayland Academy field house. The POW camp held 300 German prisoners of war in a tent city encampment.
Wayland's 65-acre (260,000 m2) campus is located near downtown Beaver Dam. It consists of north and south halves divided by Hwy. 33. North Campus, the school's original land, is home to most of the campus buildings. It has separate buildings for different academic faculties, dormitory space, administration, and student life. South Campus, a former fairgrounds, consists of athletic fields and the school's field house.
The Academic Building and Swan Library are the newest buildings on campus, completed in 1989. The Academic building houses the departments of mathematics, English, history, and modern and classical languages. Swan Library contains a student computer lab in addition to the 21,000 volume collection, including roughly 60 periodicals, and having first issue copies of several major magazines such as National Geographic.
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