St. Augustine Preparatory School
private high school in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States
St. Augustine Preparatory School is a private all-male Catholic college preparatory school located in the Richland section of Buena Vista Township, in Atlantic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Located on 118 acres (0.48 km2) of wooded property, it serves students in eighth through twelfth grade from across South Jersey under the auspices of the Diocese of Camden.
The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1983 and the New Jersey Association of Independent Schools. St. Augustine was founded in 1959 by the Order of Saint Augustine as a minor seminary to help young men prepare for studies in the priesthood and religious life; the first class was a mixture of seminarians and day students. The school is a member of the Augustinian Secondary Education Association.
The school added an eighth grade in the 2021-22 school year.
As of the 2023–24 school year, the school had an enrollment of 622 students and 47.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.1:1. The school's student body was 80.7% (502) White, 6.1% (38) Black, 5.5% (34) Hispanic, 5.1% (32) two or more races, 1.9% (12) Asian, 0.5% (3) American Indian / Alaska Native and 0.2% (1) Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander.
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