History of Boston Trinity Academy

[a history making mission]

Through the vision and efforts of dedicated Boston area leaders in the spheres of finance, education, and faith, Boston Trinity Academy opened its doors in September 2002. These founders shared a common goal to address one of the greatest needs for the young people of Boston — a rigorous college preparatory school accessible to students from all neighborhoods, ethnicities, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Beginning in 2000, these visionaries began to plan for a school that would inspire young people to set the highest standards, gain wisdom, and live a life of faith — a school rooted not only in academic excellence and intellectual curiosity but also in a deep Christian faith.

In 2002, Boston Trinity Academy was launched with 54 students in grades 6-9 in a rented school building on Beacon Street in Brookline. Adding a grade each year the school soon grew to 125 students, and in June 2006, the first senior class of 16 graduated — all college bound. As these young people were preparing to go to college, the school purchased its own facility, formerly a Catholic elementary school, and moved to an expansive five-acre campus in Boston‘s Hyde Park neighborhood. In September 2006, 160 students in grades 6-12 first entered the doors of our 17 Hale Street school building. During the current 2007-08 school year, 192 students attend Boston Trinity Academy.

The mission of Boston Trinity Academy is to educate students on the basis of a Christian worldview and to promote high academic achievement and character development founded on the love of Jesus Christ. Boston Trinity Academy actively recruits a student body that reflects Boston‘s richly diverse communities and is committed to the proposition that a strong faith culture and a demanding academic program can unite a student body with social, economic, and racial differences. In partnership with parents and the community, the Academy seeks to produce graduates distinguished by their intellect, integrity, service, and moral vision.

“… goodness without knowledge… is weak and feeble; yet knowledge without goodness is dangerous; and both united form the noblest character.”

— samuel and john phillips, 1789 founders of phillips academy at andover and exeter