Subiaco Academy

Subiaco Academy
Address
405 North Subiaco Avenue Subiaco, Arkansas 72865 United States
Coordinates	35°18′4″N 93°38′0″W / 35.30111°N 93.63333°W / 35.30111; -93.63333Coordinates: 35°18′4″N 93°38′0″W / 35.30111°N 93.63333°W / 35.30111; -93.63333
Information
Type	Private, All-Male
Religious affiliation(s)	Roman Catholic
Established	February 1928
Status	Open
CEEB code	042375
NCES School ID	00047708^[1]
Headmaster	Matt Stengel
Chaplain	Fr. Brendan Miller, O.S.B.
Teaching staff	21.0^[1] (on FTE basis)
Grades	7–12
Gender	Male
Enrollment	193^[1] (2015-2016)
Student to teacher ratio	8.2^[1]
Color(s)	Blue Orange
Slogan	America's Worst Value in Boarding Schools
Sports	Football, golf, cross country, basketball, soccer, tennis, baseball, track and field
Mascot	Trojan
Team name	Subiaco Trojans
Accreditation	Independent School Association of Central States,^[2] Arkansas Nonpublic School Accrediting Association^[3]^[3]
Newspaper	Periscope
Yearbook	Pax
Affiliation	Subiaco Abbey
Academic Dean	Cheryl Goetz
Dean of Men	Don Smith
Admissions Director	Pat Franz
Athletic Director	Tim Tencleve
Website	www.subiacoacademy.us

Subiaco Academy is an American Roman Catholic day and boarding school for boys founded in 1928. It is part of Subiaco Abbey, a Benedictine monastery in Subiaco, Arkansas.

History

The school came into existence as a result of the German migration to the Arkansas River Valley in the 1870s and especially in the 1880s and 1890s. The Little Rock-Fort Smith Railroad Company had thousands of acres of free land in the area. They had resolved to sell this land only to German Catholic settlers if possible. This company approached the Swiss Benedictine Monks in Indiana to send missionaries to Logan County Arkansas in 1878. These monks brought with them their Swiss Benedictine heritage of a monastery school. Until the First World War, numerous additional monks and recruits from Switzerland strengthened this educational tradition.^[4]

In 1887 the monks opened a school called St. Benedict's College to educate young men between the ages of 14 and 20 in the basic humanities. There were never more than 20 students in this school and it was terminated in the summer of 1892. The monks reorganized this educational project that summer, and in the fall, the school was reopened as a seminary to train students for the ministry. This school was called The Scholasticate. Modeled upon European "Gymnasium" lines, it consisted mostly of classical languages and musical training. This form of the school reached its peak with some 70 students in 1901 when the institution was largely destroyed by fire.^[4]

In December 1927, the institution was again destroyed by fire, but a primitive school, Subiaco Academy, was reopened in February 1928, in what was left of the Main Building. This school barely survived the Depression Years.^[4]

The earliest administrators and teachers were all Benedictine monks. By the time of the First World War, there were one or two male lay teachers. Hired coaches were added after the mid-1920s. The great number of non-monk staff (teachers and administrators), including female faculty members, came only in the mid-1970s.^[4]

Notable alumni

John Adams, Professional football player for the Washington Redskins^[5]
Frank Stanford (1966), poet^[6]
Harvey Wheeler (1937), author, political scientist, and scholar ^[7]

References

1 2 3 4 "Search for Private Schools – School Detail for Subiaco Academy". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
↑ "Subiaco Academy". Independent Schools Association of the Central States (ISACS). Retrieved 1 April 2013.
1 2 "Member Schools". Arkansas Non-public Schools Accrediting Association. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
1 2 3 4 Assenmacher, Hugh (1977). A Place Called Subiaco: A History of the Benedictine Monks in Arkansas. Little Rock, Ark.: Rose Publishing Company. ISBN 9780914546160.
↑ http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/A/AdamJo20.htm
↑ http://www.poetryfoundation.org/article/181083
↑ http://www.subiacoacademy.us/index.cfm?load=photoalbum&album=120

External links

Official website

Benedictine high schools in the United States

Maur Hill - Mount Academy, Atchison, KS Marmion Academy, Aurora, IL Linton Hall, Bristow, VA St. Scholastica, Chicago, IL Benedictine High School, Cleveland, OH Saint John's Preparatory School, Collegeville, MN St. Bernard Preparatory School, Cullman, AL Delbarton School, Morristown, NJ Benedictine Academy, Elizabeth, NJ Mount Michael Benedictine Abbey and High School. Elkhorn, NE Cistercian Preparatory School, Irving, TX Benet Academy, Lisle, IL Saint Benedict's Preparatory School, Newark, NJ St. Bede Academy, Peru, IL Portsmouth Abbey School, Portsmouth, RI Saint Gertrude High School, Richmond, VA Benedictine Military School, Savannah, GA Saint Louis Priory School, St. Louis, MO Subiaco Abbey and Academy, Subiaco, AR Villa Madonna Academy, Villa Hills, KY St. Anselm's Abbey School, Washington, DC Woodside Priory School, Portola Valley, CA

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Diocese of Little Rock

Bishops	Ordinaries Andrew Byrne Edward Fitzgerald John Baptist Morris Albert Lewis Fletcher Andrew Joseph McDonald J. Peter Sartain Anthony Taylor Auxiliary Lawrence Preston Joseph Graves

Churches	Cathedral Cathedral of St. Andrew Parishes Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, Altus St. Richard's Church, Bald Knob St. John the Baptist Church, Brinkley St. Mary Church, Helena St. Edwards Church, Little Rock Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, North Little Rock St. Joseph Church, Tontitown St. Luke's Church, Warren Former St. Elizabeth's Church, De Valls Bluff

Education	High Schools Catholic High School for Boys, Little Rock Mount St. Mary Academy, Little Rock Sacred Heart School, Morrilton St. Joseph High School, Conway Subiaco Academy, Subiaco Former high schools St. Joseph Catholic High School, Pine Bluff

Religious Orders	Marylake Carmelite Monastery Subiaco Abbey

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