Admiral Farragut Academy (Pine Beach, N.J.)
administrative history
Founded in 1933 on the banks of the Toms River in Pine Beach, New Jersey, Admiral Farragut Academy was--and still is--a college preparatory, military-style school named after Admiral David Glasgow Farragut, the first U.S. Naval officer to rise to that rank. During Farragut's first 12 years, the school became so popular that a second campus was purchased in 1945 on the shores of Boca Ciega Bay in St. Petersburg, Florida. It is the only campus open today.
Since 1945, the school has changed and grown quite a bit by adding day students, an elementary school, and girls. Today, the southern campus continues many of the naval high school traditions, the most important of which is creating well-rounded, resilient young men and women who are emotionally mature when they matriculate to college. [The school's northern (Pine Beach, N.J.) campus closed in 1994 after "an unfortunate decrease in enrollment."]