Boggs Academy was a Presbyterian school for African Americans founded in 1906 in Walker Settlement (Burke County), Georgia, United States, (3 miles [4.8 km] east of St. Clair), under the auspices of the Board of Missions for Freedmen, Presbyterian Church (USA).

Amid this climate, Phelps accepted the challenge to establish a school built on Christian principles, which would educate African American youth.

The school was named after Virginia P. Boggs (Corresponding Secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Missions For Freedmen)[3] as a tribute for her faithful zeal, commitment to the school's success and her support and friendship to Reverend Phelps while he was a student at Biddle University (now known as Johnson C. Smith University).

Boggs Academy had also negotiated a settlement that allowed both white and black people to serve on its faculty.

Over the years the Boggs student body and campus continued to grow and flourish with additional acreage, buildings and capabilities.