The school was developed to serve German immigrants and their descendants in the Arkansas River Valley, who increased markedly in number from the 1870s, and especially in the 1880s and 1890s.

This company approached the Swiss Benedictine monks in Indiana to send missionaries to Logan County Arkansas in 1878.

[3] In 1887 the monks opened a school called St. Benedict's College to educate young men between the ages of 14 and 20 in the basic humanities.

It was not until the mid-1970s that the school hired a majority lay staff (teachers and administrators), including female faculty members.

As a private college preparatory school, Subiaco Academy offers a wide range of programs and courses.

A first of its kind program, each grade is divided into groups where they learn everything from Academic and Life skills to Entrepreneurship, Integrity Based Leadership, and Emotional Intelligence.