Doane Academy

Doane Academy
Location
350 Riverbank Burlington, New Jersey
Information
Type	Private, Coed.
Motto	Right Onward
Established	1837
Faculty	27.9 (on FTE basis)
Grades	Pre K - 12
Enrollment	223 (plus 7 in PreK) (2013-14)
Student to teacher ratio	8.0:1
Campus size	13 acres (53,000 m2)
Campus type	Suburban on the Delaware River
Color(s)	Navy Blue   White
Athletics conference	Penn-Jersey Athletic Association NJSIAA Parochial B
Mascot	Sparty
Team name	Spartans
Affiliation	Episcopal
Website	http://www.doaneacademy.org

Doane Academy is a coeducational independent private day school located in Burlington, New Jersey. It was founded as St. Mary's Hall in May 1837 by the Right Reverend George Washington Doane, the second Episcopal bishop of New Jersey, and is recognized as the first all-girls, academic boarding school in the United States. Originally founded to offer an education equal to that of men, it accepted girls and young women as undergraduates and postgraduates. In 1966 an all-boys school, Doane Academy, was opened in Burlington in association with St. Mary's Hall. In 1974, the two schools merged to form the co-educational St. Mary's Hall-Doane Academy. In April 2008 the name was shortened to Doane Academy.

Three buildings on campus are of historical importance, including the Chapel of the Holy Innocents, which has been called the first Gothic cruciform church in the United States. The building has been recorded in the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), with measured drawings held by the Library of Congress. The campus is currently expanding, with the construction of Rowan Hall (Nov 2014), a three-story building which will add eleven classrooms as well as meeting and administrative spaces.

The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1989.

As of the 2013-14 school year, the school had an enrollment of 223 students (plus 7 in PreK) and 27.9 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 8.0:1.

On January 9, 2015, the school announced that Henry Rowan and his wife, long-time benefactors, had established a $17 million endowment for Doane Academy, with the proceeds available to the school in perpetuity. Because of their generous donation, Doane Academy is building another building connecting Scarborough Hall (1912) and Odenheimer Hall (1869) in their honor called Rowan Hall. Construction is to be finished by the 2015-2016 school year. The Rowan Family Foundation continues to support the school at a high level.

Doane Academy is a member of NJAIS, NAIS and NAES.

External links

• Official website
• Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. NJ-317, "Chapel of the Holy Innocents, Burlington, Burlington County, NJ", 1 photo, 3 data pages, supplemental material
• Frank Greenagel, "Chapel of the Holy Innocents", New Jersey Churchscapes, 2010
• Data for Doane Academy, National Center for Education Statistics