Shady Side Academy
| Shady Side Academy | |
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| Location | |
423 Fox Chapel Road Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15238-2296 United States | |
| Information | |
| School type | Independent boarding & day college-preparatory school |
| Motto | Latin: Fide Semper Vincere} (Faith Always Conquers) |
Religious affiliation | Nonsectarian |
| Established | 1883 |
| Status | Open |
| CEEB code | 393901 |
NCES School ID | 01631942 |
| President | Bartley P. Griffith Jr. |
Chair | Robert Shannon Mullin |
| Grades | PK–12 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Enrollment | 1,260 (2024-2025) |
Student to teacher ratio | 7.5 |
Hours in school day | 9.5 |
| Campuses | 4 |
Campus size | 200 acres (81 ha) |
| Colors | Old gold & navy |
Athletics conference | PIAA, WPIAL |
| Nickname | Bulldogs |
| Accreditation | MSA, NAIS, TABS |
| Newspaper | The Shady Side Academy News |
| Yearbook | Academian |
| Endowment | $61.28 million |
Annual tuition | $39,000 (day) $66,500 (boarding) |
| Revenue | $61 million |
| Philip Showalter Hench | |
| Website | www |
Shady Side Academy is an independent preparatory school in Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania in Greater Pittsburgh. Founded in 1883 as an all-male night school in the Shadyside neighborhood of Pittsburgh, the academy now offers a secular coeducational PK–12 program on four campuses in the city and its suburbs, including a boarding program 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.
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 in Wiscasset, Maine and the High Mountain Institute's HMI Semester in Leadville, Colorado, and sends a significant number of students to both programs annually.