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Albany Academy
Albany Academy
Address
	135 Academy Road; Albany, New York 12208; United States
Information
Type	Private, College-prep, Day
Motto	Honor Integritas Officium; (Honor, Integrity, Service)
Established	1813; 211 years ago
Sister school	Albany Academy for Girls
CEEB code	330035
Head of school	Christopher J. Lauricella
Faculty	50+ teachers
Grades	P–12
Gender	Boys
Enrollment	315 (AAG), 323 (AA) 638 (Combined Boys & Girls)
Average class size	16 students
Student to teacher ratio	9:1
Campus size	25 acres (100,000 m2)
Campus type	Urban
Color(s)	Red and Black
Athletics	13 interscholastic sports teams
Athletics conference	Colonial Council; NEPSAC
Mascot	Cadets
Tuition	$13,500-$23,100
Affiliation	The Albany Academies; NYSAIS
Website	www.albanyacademies.org

Albany Academy is an independent college preparatory day school in Albany, New York. It enrolls students from Prekindergaten (age 4) to Grade 12. It was established in 1813 by a charter signed by Mayor Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer and the city council of Albany. In July 2007, the once separate Albany Academy and Albany Academy for Girls merged into The Albany Academies. In 2024, the school launched a unifying brand effort as "Albany Academy."

History

The Albany Academy is the oldest day school for boys in New York state's Capital Region. The Academy was chartered in March 1813 to educate the sons of Albany's political elite and rapidly growing merchant class. In the Census three years prior, Albany was the tenth-largest city in the United States, and would remain so through the 1850s due to the prominence of the Erie Canal.

Classes began within months after the charter was granted, offering a college preparatory track (including intensive study of Ancient Greek, and Latin) and an arithmetic-based track to prepare young men for Albany's role as a center of commerce. Two years later, in 1815, a purpose-built building was completed in present-day Academy Park, adjacent to the New York State Capitol. The Federal-style building, now known as the Old Academy and headquarters of the City School District of Albany, was designed by renowned Albany architect Philip Hooker. The building is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.^[1]^[2]

In 1870, in response to a lack of military preparation institutions in the north during the American Civil War, the Albany Academy adopted the Battalion Leadership Program, instructing the "cadets" in military procedure and the art of leadership. In 2005, the school ended compulsory involvement in the program in favor of a House-based leadership program commonly found in English preparatory schools.

In 1931, the school moved from its original downtown building in present-day Academy Park to its current location on the corner of Hackett Boulevard and Academy Road, in the University Heights section of Albany. Designed by Marcus T. Reynolds in the neo-Georgian style, the building incorporates many elements of the Old Academy building, namely the main entryway and cupola. The school stands approximately two miles from the city center. The red-brick Academy building's marble cornerstone was laid by the then-governor of New York and future president Franklin D. Roosevelt.

In 2005, The Albany Academy ended its longstanding Army JROTC program.

In July 2007, the board of trustees announced that The Albany Academy and Albany Academy for Girls would merge into The Albany Academies.

Accreditation and memberships

The Albany Academies are accredited by the New York State Association of Independent Schools and recognized by the Regents of the State of New York.

Alumni

Government, law, business, and public policy

William Barnes Jr., chairman of the New York Republican State Committee and member of the Republican National Committee
T. Garry Buckley, 72nd Lieutenant Governor of Vermont.
John W. Causey, United States Representative from Delaware
Norton Chase, New York State Assemblyman and New York State Senator
E. Harold Cluett, U.S. Representative from New York
Andrew J. Colvin, district attorney of Albany County and New York State Senator
Edwin Corning, businessman, Lieutenant Governor of New York
Edwin Corning Jr., member of the New York State Assembly
Erastus Corning 2nd, Mayor of Albany from 1942 to 1983
Parker Corning, U.S. Representative from New York
Frederick A. Conkling, U.S. Representative from New York
Learned Hand, justice of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, regarded as the most influential American jurist never to sit on the Supreme Court of the United States
Francis Hendricks, Mayor of Syracuse and president of the State Bank of Syracuse.
Abraham Lansing, lawyer, New York State Treasurer, and New York State Senator
James Campbell Matthews, attorney and judge, New York's first African-American law school graduate
Roger McNamee, venture capital and private equity investor, founder of Elevation Partners and Silver Lake Partners
Peter P. Murphy, physician and politician
Stephen P. Nash, lawyer, president of the New York City Bar Association
Frederic P. Olcott, banker, stock broker, and New York State Comptroller
Rufus Wheeler Peckham, Class of 1855
Rufus Wheeler Peckham, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States on the Supreme Court of the United States (1895–1909)
Wheeler Hazard Peckham, lawyer, U.S. Supreme Court nominee
John V. L. Pruyn, U.S. Representative from New York
William Gorham Rice, New York state government official, U.S. Civil Service Commissioner
Henry M. Sage, New York State Assemblyman and New York State Senator
Charles Emory Smith, U.S. Minister to Russia (1890–1892), U.S. Postmaster General (1898–1902)
Phillip Steck, Democratic member of the New York State Assembly
Peter G. Ten Eyck, U.S. Representative from New York
John Boyd Thacher II, Mayor of Albany from 1926 to 1941
Ralph W. Thomas, New York State Senator
Charles Tracey, U.S. Representative from New York
Chauncey Vibbard, organizer of the New York Central Railroad and U.S. Representative from New York
Henry Waldron, U.S. Representative from Michigan
Charles W. van Rensselaer first officer and paymaster aboard the SS Central America when it was lost during a hurricane in September 1857

Medicine and academia

John Seiler Brubacher, author, educational philosopher, Yale University professor
Andrew Sloan Draper, jurist, author, and president of the University of Illinois
William Durden, president of Dickinson College
Julian Gibbs, president of Amherst College
Henry Hun, physician and professor of nervous diseases at the Albany Medical College
Jesse Montgomery Mosher, physician credited with establishing the first psychiatric ward within the organization of a general hospital
Stewart Myers, Robert C. Merton Professor of Financial Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management, coined the term real option
Douglas M. North, president of Alaska Pacific University and Prescott College, and head of school of The Albany Academies
Martin Seligman, psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania known for his work on learned helplessness and positive psychology
Horace Silliman, businessman, philanthropist, namesake of Silliman University
Howard Townsend, physician and medical professor
William Bell Wait, teacher in the New York Institute for the Education of the Blind who invented New York Point, a writing for the blind before Braille

Literature and journalism

Luke Rhinehart (George Powers Cockcroft), author of The Dice Man
Gordon Ackerman, journalist, writer, and photographer
Stephen Vincent Benét, poet laureate, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize (1929, 1944)
William Rose Benét, poet laureate, winner of the Pulitzer Prize (1942)
Christopher Cuomo, Emmy Award-winning television journalist for CNN
Herman Melville, author of Moby-Dick
Andy Rooney, author, journalist, and commentator for 60 Minutes
Erik Wemple, journalist for The Washington Post
Isidor Lewi, on editorial board of New York Tribune