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EspañolST. PAUL ACADEMY AND SUMMIT SCHOOL
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'St. Paul Academy and Summit School' (commonly known as 'SPA') is a college preparatory independent school in St. Paul, Minnesota for students in grades K-12.
The school was established through a merger in 1969 of St. Paul Academy, a school for boys, and Summit School, a school for girls. St. Paul Academy was founded in 1900 and Summit School in 1917. The school celebrated its centennial in 2000.[1]
Recent commencement speakers include Al Franken, Coretta Scott King, and Garrison Keillor.
The schools consists of two campuses: the Goodrich Campus and the Randolph Campus.
★ The 'Goodrich Campus', site of the old Summit School for girls, is the current home of the Lower School (grades K-5, ~290 students) and contains the Sarah Converse Auditorium, home of SPA theater productions. It is located at 1150 Goodrich Avenue.
★ The 'Randolph Campus', site of the old St. Paul Academy for boys, is the current home of the Middle School (grades 6-8, ~240 students) as well as the Upper School (grades 9-12, ~380 students) and contains SPA's Drake hockey arena. It is located at 1712 Randolph Avenue.
School hours are from 8:00 am to 3:00 pm, with exceptions for after-school activities.
The school has great art programs, as well as sports and education.
In the Upper School (Grades 9-12), SPA has a college-preparatory liberal arts curriculum.[2] The language department offers instruction in French, German, Spanish, and Mandarin Chinese (simplified characters) and has two-week long optional international exchange programs for students in grades 10-12 with partner schools in France, Germany, Spain, and China.
One of the main drawing features of SPA is its strong English department, which offers students strong individual attention, helping them to develop their analytical reading and writing skills. General courses are offered during freshman and sophomore years, while semester-long electives are offered during junior and senior years.
SPA's math department is also well-respected and offers Algebra II, Geometry/Trigonometry, Precalculus, and Calculus I during freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior years, respectively. Electives are available to seniors. Accelerated honors courses are also offered in each level, and a number of students also take university-level math courses through UMTYMP at the University of Minnesota. SPA also has a strong Math team, which has a long history of successes.
The science department at SPA offers Earth Science, Biology, Chemistry, and Physics for freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior years, respectively. As with math, accelerated honors courses are offered at each level. In senior year and for juniors who went on semester away, semester long electives are offered, these include: genetics, space science, marine biology, and field biology. The science department is extremely strong possesing two teachers with Ph.D's (one from MIT) and another two with masters. Many students also opt to participate in SPA's Science Olympiad team and/or Science Bowl team, both of which competed at national competitions in 2007.
For freshmen through junior year, the history department has required courses that include: World History I, World History II, and American History. In senior year, all history courses are elective based. Though the selections vary year to year an Honors World History Course and Honors US History Course are offered.
The music department touts two jazz bands, one orchestra, Senior Strings (a string ensemble), a large choir, and Summit Singers (a choral group). All of the music ensembles are well-respected, but no one is turned away from participation. The ensembles all offer a fall concert called Pops Concert where contemporary music is played as well as a spring concert where more traditional music is featured. SPA also hosts a free music competition every spring for singers and musicians from SPA and the surrounding area.
Each year, the school sends several juniors to semester-away programs including CITYterm in New York, Oxbow School in California, Maine Coast Semester in Maine, and Rocky Mountain Semester in Colorado.
SPA has a laptop program in its Middle and Upper Schools whereby the school provides each student in 7th grade with a notebook computer and students in grades 8 through 10 must purchase one from the school.[3]
One of SPA's unique feature is the Harkness tables, oval wooden tables that seat 12-15 students, that were integrated into most language, history, English, and some science classrooms beginning in 2005.[4]
Another SPA feature is the presence of senior speeches. All seniors are required to give a 5-8 minute speech in front of the entire school on a topic of their choosing. These typically run from the third week of September through the mid-April.
SPA also offers fencing, swimming & diving, soccer, track, football, volleyball, hockey, softball, and baseball.
The College Counseling Department at SPA works with students beginning at the end of their sophomore year to find good college matches, get good recommendations, write excellent essays, and apply to the schools they wish to get into. They also mediate the parent-student relationship during the application process to maximize the amount of choice, control, and success the student finds while addressing the parents concerns as well. Almost all SPA graduates go on to college, and many go on to make notable achievements in their fields.
★ F. Scott Fitzgerald attended the school from 1908-1911 until he was expelled for poor work and cheating. He was more interested in football than in academics. Later, he went on to become a famous author. The most famous of his works may be The Great Gatsby.
★ Steven Levitt is the author of 2005 New York Times bestseller book ''Freakonomics'' and led the quiz bowl team to nationals two years in a row.
★ William Pedersen ('56), partner in Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, is the lead architect on the Shanghai World Financial Center, which, when completed in 2007, will be one of the world's tallest buildings.
★ Reynolds Guyer invented the Nerf children's toys.
★ Tony Sanneh is a professional soccer player who has won two Major League Soccer Cups and also played every minute for the United States in the 2002 World Cup in Korea/Japan.
★ Rebecca Jarvis is a financial reporter and a finalist on ''The Apprentice (Season 4)''
★ John Doar was a prominent civil rights attorney in the 1960s, who most notably defended James Meredith in his attempt to enroll in the then-segregated University of Mississippi.
★ Karen Ashe is director of the Neurobiology of Alzheimer’s Disease Research Laboratory at the University of Minnesota
★ Joan Mondale is the wife of former Vice-President Walter Mondale.
★ Ann Bancroft ('74) was the first woman to successfully complete expeditions across the Arctic and Antarctic.
★ Roger G. Kennedy ('44) served as Director of the National Park Service and of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History. He was also a Vice President of the Ford Foundation and has worked for the departments of Labor, Justice, Health and Human Services, and Education.
★ Charles Berde ('69) is a Professor of Anesthesia and Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, and is co-founder and director of the Pain Treatment Service at Children's Hospital in Boston
★ Paul Georgieff ('01) is a contestant on season six of The Ultimate Fighter.
★ SPA's yearbook is named IBID.
★ SPA's student-run newspaper is called ''The Rubicon'', after the river in Italy. It has received the First Place in the Star Tribune's annual High School Newspaper Challenge Class A for two years running (2005 and 2006).[5]
★ SPA used to be referred to as "The Academy." As such, the school Letter Jacket has an "A" on it.
★ The mascot is the Spartan. It was chosen in the 1960s because the first three letters of Spartan are the school's initials. The official colors are Blue and Gold. SPA won the right to use them from The Blake School in a football game nearly 100 years ago.
★ Part of the movie Dead of Night was filmed at SPA in the Briggs Gynasium and Drake Arena
★ SPA's fencing team was started in 1977 as method for dodging the PE requirement by requesting a sport that was not offered at the time.
1. Official St. Paul Academy and Summit School Website
2. 2006 SPA Profile
3. SPA Laptop Program
4. SPA's Upper School program
5. Rubicon selected "Best in Show" at Press Convention
'St. Paul Academy and Summit School' (commonly known as 'SPA') is a college preparatory independent school in St. Paul, Minnesota for students in grades K-12.
The school was established through a merger in 1969 of St. Paul Academy, a school for boys, and Summit School, a school for girls. St. Paul Academy was founded in 1900 and Summit School in 1917. The school celebrated its centennial in 2000.[1]
Recent commencement speakers include Al Franken, Coretta Scott King, and Garrison Keillor.
| Contents |
| Campuses |
| Academic program |
| Notable alumni |
| Trivia |
| References |
Campuses
The schools consists of two campuses: the Goodrich Campus and the Randolph Campus.
★ The 'Goodrich Campus', site of the old Summit School for girls, is the current home of the Lower School (grades K-5, ~290 students) and contains the Sarah Converse Auditorium, home of SPA theater productions. It is located at 1150 Goodrich Avenue.
★ The 'Randolph Campus', site of the old St. Paul Academy for boys, is the current home of the Middle School (grades 6-8, ~240 students) as well as the Upper School (grades 9-12, ~380 students) and contains SPA's Drake hockey arena. It is located at 1712 Randolph Avenue.
School hours are from 8:00 am to 3:00 pm, with exceptions for after-school activities.
The school has great art programs, as well as sports and education.
Academic program
In the Upper School (Grades 9-12), SPA has a college-preparatory liberal arts curriculum.[2] The language department offers instruction in French, German, Spanish, and Mandarin Chinese (simplified characters) and has two-week long optional international exchange programs for students in grades 10-12 with partner schools in France, Germany, Spain, and China.
One of the main drawing features of SPA is its strong English department, which offers students strong individual attention, helping them to develop their analytical reading and writing skills. General courses are offered during freshman and sophomore years, while semester-long electives are offered during junior and senior years.
SPA's math department is also well-respected and offers Algebra II, Geometry/Trigonometry, Precalculus, and Calculus I during freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior years, respectively. Electives are available to seniors. Accelerated honors courses are also offered in each level, and a number of students also take university-level math courses through UMTYMP at the University of Minnesota. SPA also has a strong Math team, which has a long history of successes.
The science department at SPA offers Earth Science, Biology, Chemistry, and Physics for freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior years, respectively. As with math, accelerated honors courses are offered at each level. In senior year and for juniors who went on semester away, semester long electives are offered, these include: genetics, space science, marine biology, and field biology. The science department is extremely strong possesing two teachers with Ph.D's (one from MIT) and another two with masters. Many students also opt to participate in SPA's Science Olympiad team and/or Science Bowl team, both of which competed at national competitions in 2007.
For freshmen through junior year, the history department has required courses that include: World History I, World History II, and American History. In senior year, all history courses are elective based. Though the selections vary year to year an Honors World History Course and Honors US History Course are offered.
The music department touts two jazz bands, one orchestra, Senior Strings (a string ensemble), a large choir, and Summit Singers (a choral group). All of the music ensembles are well-respected, but no one is turned away from participation. The ensembles all offer a fall concert called Pops Concert where contemporary music is played as well as a spring concert where more traditional music is featured. SPA also hosts a free music competition every spring for singers and musicians from SPA and the surrounding area.
Each year, the school sends several juniors to semester-away programs including CITYterm in New York, Oxbow School in California, Maine Coast Semester in Maine, and Rocky Mountain Semester in Colorado.
SPA has a laptop program in its Middle and Upper Schools whereby the school provides each student in 7th grade with a notebook computer and students in grades 8 through 10 must purchase one from the school.[3]
One of SPA's unique feature is the Harkness tables, oval wooden tables that seat 12-15 students, that were integrated into most language, history, English, and some science classrooms beginning in 2005.[4]
Another SPA feature is the presence of senior speeches. All seniors are required to give a 5-8 minute speech in front of the entire school on a topic of their choosing. These typically run from the third week of September through the mid-April.
SPA also offers fencing, swimming & diving, soccer, track, football, volleyball, hockey, softball, and baseball.
The College Counseling Department at SPA works with students beginning at the end of their sophomore year to find good college matches, get good recommendations, write excellent essays, and apply to the schools they wish to get into. They also mediate the parent-student relationship during the application process to maximize the amount of choice, control, and success the student finds while addressing the parents concerns as well. Almost all SPA graduates go on to college, and many go on to make notable achievements in their fields.
Notable alumni
★ F. Scott Fitzgerald attended the school from 1908-1911 until he was expelled for poor work and cheating. He was more interested in football than in academics. Later, he went on to become a famous author. The most famous of his works may be The Great Gatsby.
★ Steven Levitt is the author of 2005 New York Times bestseller book ''Freakonomics'' and led the quiz bowl team to nationals two years in a row.
★ William Pedersen ('56), partner in Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, is the lead architect on the Shanghai World Financial Center, which, when completed in 2007, will be one of the world's tallest buildings.
★ Reynolds Guyer invented the Nerf children's toys.
★ Tony Sanneh is a professional soccer player who has won two Major League Soccer Cups and also played every minute for the United States in the 2002 World Cup in Korea/Japan.
★ Rebecca Jarvis is a financial reporter and a finalist on ''The Apprentice (Season 4)''
★ John Doar was a prominent civil rights attorney in the 1960s, who most notably defended James Meredith in his attempt to enroll in the then-segregated University of Mississippi.
★ Karen Ashe is director of the Neurobiology of Alzheimer’s Disease Research Laboratory at the University of Minnesota
★ Joan Mondale is the wife of former Vice-President Walter Mondale.
★ Ann Bancroft ('74) was the first woman to successfully complete expeditions across the Arctic and Antarctic.
★ Roger G. Kennedy ('44) served as Director of the National Park Service and of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History. He was also a Vice President of the Ford Foundation and has worked for the departments of Labor, Justice, Health and Human Services, and Education.
★ Charles Berde ('69) is a Professor of Anesthesia and Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, and is co-founder and director of the Pain Treatment Service at Children's Hospital in Boston
★ Paul Georgieff ('01) is a contestant on season six of The Ultimate Fighter.
Trivia
★ SPA's yearbook is named IBID.
★ SPA's student-run newspaper is called ''The Rubicon'', after the river in Italy. It has received the First Place in the Star Tribune's annual High School Newspaper Challenge Class A for two years running (2005 and 2006).[5]
★ SPA used to be referred to as "The Academy." As such, the school Letter Jacket has an "A" on it.
★ The mascot is the Spartan. It was chosen in the 1960s because the first three letters of Spartan are the school's initials. The official colors are Blue and Gold. SPA won the right to use them from The Blake School in a football game nearly 100 years ago.
★ Part of the movie Dead of Night was filmed at SPA in the Briggs Gynasium and Drake Arena
★ SPA's fencing team was started in 1977 as method for dodging the PE requirement by requesting a sport that was not offered at the time.
References
1. Official St. Paul Academy and Summit School Website
2. 2006 SPA Profile
3. SPA Laptop Program
4. SPA's Upper School program
5. Rubicon selected "Best in Show" at Press Convention
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