| Doane Stuart School |
| | " " | | Established | 1975 | | School type | Independent, co-ed | | Religious affiliation | Roman Catholic / Episcopal | | Headmaster | Richard D. Enemark | | Location | Albany, New York, USA | | Campus | 80 acres | | Enrollment | 270 students (pre-K - 12) | | Faculty | 40 teachers | | Average class size | 14 students | Student:teacher
ratio | 7:1 | | Athletics | 7 interscholastic sports teams | | Mascot | Thunder Chicken | The Doane Stuart School is an independent, coeducational school in Albany, New York. The School features a low student to teacher ratio and a rigorous college preparatory curriculum. The school also has an emphasis on community service and on interfaith tolerance. The school is a member of the Network of Sacred Heart Schools. Image File history File links Doane_Stuart_Tower. ...
Location in Albany County and the State of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York County Albany Founded 1614 Incorporated 1686 Mayor Gerald D. Jennings Area - City 56. ...
Official language(s) English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area Ranked 27th - Total 54,520 sq mi (141,205 km²) - Width 285 miles (455 km) - Length 330 miles (530 km) - % water 13. ...
A university-preparatory school or college-preparatory school (usually shortened to preparatory school, or prep school) is a private secondary school (or high school) designed to prepare a student for higher education. ...
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History
The Doane Stuart School was created in 1975 as a merger between the Roman Catholic Kenwood Academy (founded by the Society of the Sacred Heart in 1852) and the Episcopal St. Agnes School (founded 1870). This unique merger is the first and only known merger of a Roman Catholic school and an Episcopal school in the United States. 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ...
1852 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
1870 (MDCCCLXX) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ...
The School was established on the grounds of the former Kenwood Academy. The name Doane Stuart was chosen to honor the First Episcopal Bishop of Albany, The Right Reverend William Croswell Doane, and the Roman Catholic educator, Janet Erskine Stuart, RSCJ. Doane Stuart was established as a co-educational school, the only independent co-ed school in Albany. An editor has expressed a concern that the subject of the article does not satisfy the notability guideline or one of the following guidelines for inclusion on Wikipedia: Biographies, Books, Companies, Fiction, Music, Neologisms, Numbers, Web content, or several proposals for new guidelines. ...
The Society of the Sacred Heart is a Roman Catholic religious congregation established in France by St. ...
The school initially included both boarding and day students; in 1995 the school discontinued the boarding program to focus exclusively on day students.
Circa 2003, "under the leadership of Richard Enemark, the present head, the school changed its description from 'ecumencial' to 'interfaith,'..." Heart Summer '04 p. 14
In August 2006, The Albany Academy, Albany Academy for Girls, and Doane Stuart School announced their intent to merge into a single institution. The new institution would occupy The Academies' campus on Academy Road, continue single-gender education (a change for Doane Stuart students), and be led by current Doane Stuart Head of School Richard Enemark (Caroline Mason, the current head of both Academies, previously announced her intention of stepping down after the 2006-2007 school year). After parent protest, Doane Stuart withdrew from the proposed merger in September 2006, announcing its decision to remain a separate institution.
School Mission The school is founded on the principles of ecumenism, co-education, and community service. The school accepts students of all faiths and includes a non-doctrinal religious curriculum in which students explore intellectually their own faith and the faiths of others. Doane Stuart students are very active in the community, completing more than 5,000 hours annually of volunteer community service in the Albany area. The school also emphasizes academic excellence and integrity. The Upper School has a rigorous college preparatory curriculum and virtually all of its graduates have continued their education at some of the nation's most highly selective colleges and universities. The word ecumenism (also oecumenism, Å“cumenism) is derived from Greek (oikoumene), which means the inhabited world, and was historically used with specific reference to the Roman Empire. ...
Coeducation is the integrated education of men and women. ...
Student Body Doane Stuart’s Upper School has 110 students, while the Lower and Middle Schools combined have 160 students, split nearly 50:50 between boys and girls. Approximately 10 percent of the School’s students are from minority communities, and another 2–5 percent each year are exchange students from international programs, including the School’s unique exchange with Lagan College in Belfast, or other Sacred Heart schools in America. Doane Stuart students are primarily from the eight counties surrounding Albany, from as far south as the Berkshires to as far north as Saratoga Springs. Campus safety and behavior policies are provided to students each year via School handbooks for each division.
School Programs and Sports The Doane Stuart School campus includes a full court gym and two athletic fields. Upper School intermural sports include fencing, soccer, basketball and softball. Required physical education classes take advantage of the School's rural campus to include such activities as cross-country skiing in addition to traditional gym activities.
The school is home to a local Buddhist congregation. The School hosts an Irish American Exchange program, begun in 2003, which brings together Protestant and Catholic students from Northern Ireland to spend a year at Doane Stuart and live with local families. A replica of an ancient statue found among the ruins of a temple at Sarnath Buddhism is a philosophy based on the teachings of the Buddha, SiddhÄrtha Gautama, a prince of the Shakyas, whose lifetime is traditionally given as 566 to 486 BCE. It had subsequently been accepted by...
Motto: [citation needed] (French for God and my right)2 Anthem: UK: God Save the Queen Regional: (de facto) Londonderry Air Capital Belfast Largest city Belfast Official language(s) English (de facto), Irish, Ulster Scots 3, NI Sign Language Government Constitutional monarchy - Queen Queen Elizabeth II - Prime Minister Tony Blair...
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