Norwich Free Academy

In 2017 the NFA administration protested against a Governor of Connecticut Dannel P. Malloy's Senate Bill 786, which requires trustees of any "incorporated or endowed high school or academy" to publicly post each "schedule, agenda and minutes of each meeting". SB 786 also allows for area school districts that send students to NFA to have seats on the NFA board of representatives. It also allows public hearings and reviews by area boards of education of portions of NFA's budget, as well as the auditing the NFA revenues each year.[7]

The bill ultimately was modified; it continued to allow area boards of education to review the NFA budget and hold public hearings and requiring annual auditing, but the requirement that area school boards have representatives on the NFA board was removed. On March 24 the Education Committee of the Connecticut General Assembly approved this revised version. The NFA administration expressed satisfaction over this outcome.[8]

The Slater Memorial Museum in 1958

NFA is located at 305 Broadway across from Park Church and the Chelsea Parade. The 38 acre[9] main campus contains seven buildings that are listed in the National Register of Historic Places, the most prominent being the Slater Memorial Museum.[10]

Graduation Rate for Class of 2006: 93.6%
State Average: 92.2%[11]

Activities of Graduates
% Attending Two or Four Year College:
2006: 82.5%
2001: 77.6%[11]

Staff Education
% of Staff with Master's degree or Above: 84.0%
State Average: 76.0%[12]

• Baseball
• Basketball
• Cheerleading
• Cross Country
• Dance Team
• Fencing
• Field Hockey
• Football
  

  The NFA Sports Logo
• Golf
• Hockey
• Lacrosse
• Soccer
• Softball
• Swimming
• Tennis
• Track and Field
• Volleyball
• Wrestling

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The oldest high school football rivalry in the United States is between Norwich Free Academy and New London High School.[14][15] The first meeting between NFA and the Bulkeley School for Boys occurred on May 12, 1875; Bulkeley merged with Chapman Technical High School in 1951 to become New London High School and the rivalry with NFA continued.[16] The games have been noncontinuous, interrupted by World War I[16] and a 2-year hiatus after a brawl in 1951.[17] Some years saw them play against each other more than once a season.[18] The two teams played their 153rd game in November, 2014.[19]

• John-Manuel Andriote (1976) - author and journalist[20]
• Allyn L. Brown (1901) - lawyer, judge, and Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court[21]
• Eric Campbell (2005) - professional baseball player (Oakland Athletics)
• Andrew Carignan (2004) - former professional baseball player (San Francisco Giants)[22]
• Scott Chiasson (1995) - former professional baseball player[23]
• William J. Evans (1942) - Air Force general; former commander-in-chief of United States Air Forces in Europe[24]
• John H. Fanning, ? - lawyer; member and chairman of the National Labor Relations Board[25]
• Sidney Frank (1938) - businessman[26]
• Henry Jerome (1935)[27] - band leader and record company executive[28]
• Bill Krohn (1976) - professional distance runner[29]
• Wally Lamb (1968) - author (She's Come Undone, I Know This Much Is True)[30]
• Edwin H. Land (1926) - scientist and inventor, co-founder of Polaroid[31]
• Dominic Leone (2009) - professional baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals)[32]
• William J. Mills, ? - jurist and last governor of New Mexico Territory[33]
• Cathy Osten (1973)[34] - Connecticut senator[35]
• Robert J. Papp, Jr. (1970) - Coast Guard admiral; former Commandant of the United States Coast Guard[36]
• Don Pardo (1937) - television announcer (Saturday Night Live)[37]
• Matt Shaughnessy (2005)[38] - professional football player (New Orleans Saints)[39]
• Tuzar Skipper (2014)[40] - professional football player (Pittsburgh Steelers)[41]
• Pete Slosberg (1968) - brewer, founder of Pete's Brewing Company[42]

• Paul Faulkner, artist[43]
• Wally Lamb, author[44]

• List of high school football rivalries more than 100 years old

• Norwich Free Academy