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
Patron saint(s) St. Benedict
Established February 1928
Status Open
CEEB code 042375
NCES School ID 00047708[1]
Headmaster Mike Berry
Chaplain Deacon Roy Goetz
Teaching staff 21.0[1] (on FTE basis)
Grades 7–12
Gender Male
Enrollment 193[1] (2017-2018)
 • Grade 8 15
 • Grade 9 36
 • Grade 10 49
 • Grade 11 42
 • Grade 12 35
Student to teacher ratio 8.2[1]
Campus size 100 Acres
Campus type Open College Campus
Color(s)      Blue
     Orange
Slogan Benedictine Leaders of Tomorrow!
Athletics Football, Basketball, Soccer, Baseball, Tennis, Cross Country, Golf and Track
Athletics conference 4A
Sports Football, golf, cross country, basketball, soccer, tennis, baseball, track and field
Mascot Trojan
Nickname Subi
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 Jeff O'Neal
Admissions Director Pat Franz
Athletic Director Greg Timmerman
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

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Search for Private Schools – School Detail for Subiaco Academy". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
  2. ↑ "Subiaco Academy". Independent Schools Association of the Central States (ISACS). Retrieved 1 April 2013.
  3. 1 2 "Member Schools". Arkansas Non-public Schools Accrediting Association. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
  4. 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.
  5. ↑ "John Adams Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
  6. ↑ "The Long Goodbye by Ben Ehrenreich". Poetry Foundation. 12 February 2018. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
  7. ↑ "1st--Harvey Wheeler". Subiaco Academy. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
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