Opened 2010 (merger) Grades PreK–12 Enrollment 1,102 Mascot Blue Devil Founded 2010 | Head of school Dr. Stephen Druggan Gender Coeducational Phone +1 215-247-7200 Number of students 1,102 Athletics conference Inter-Academic League | |
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Established 1861 (Chestnut Hill)
1879 (Springside) Address 500 W Willow Grove Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19118, USA School types Private school, Day school, University-preparatory school Similar Germanto Academy, William Penn Charter S, Germanto Friends School, The Shipley School, The Haverford School Profiles | ||
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Springside Chestnut Hill Academy is a school in the Chestnut Hill neighborhood of Philadelphia.
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History
Springside Chestnut Hill Academy was formed by the 2010 merger between all-girls Springside School and all-boys Chestnut Hill Academy, private Pre-K–12 schools on adjacent campuses.
The school—also known as SCH Academy and SCH—has a unique educational model, stemming from its history as two independent, single-sex institutions. The Lower and Middle Schools, grades Pre-K to 8, continue to be single-sex and follow many of their traditions such as May Day (girls) and Blue and Blue Day (boys), and the Upper School is coeducational.
In 2012, SCH Academy established the Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL) to complement its core curriculum and to cultivate an entrepreneurial mindset. The school is situated on a 62-acre campus and serves 1,100 boys and girls from more than 90 zip codes and internationally.
Campus
SCH Academy is situated on a 62-acre campus adjacent to the Wissahickon Creek watershed in Fairmount Park. Its sports facilities include nine playing fields including two turf fields, the longest continuously used baseball diamond in the U.S., ten squash courts, and an indoor rowing tank. The campus also features the largest school solar array in the City of Philadelphia (a half acre of solar panels supplying electricity to the Cherokee Campus), a Gold LEED-certified Rorer Center for Science and Technology building, a customized, 1,600-square-foot, state-of-the-art Robotics and Engineering Lab, and two video production labs.