The Episcopal Academy, founded in 1785, is a private, co-educational school for grades Pre-K through 12 based in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania.

William White at Old Christ Church in Philadelphia as an all-boys school, focusing on classical education in Greek, Latin, religion, mathematics, and business.

Trustees included two signers of the Declaration of Independence, as well as bankers, merchants, and ministers.

[2] When Dr. Andrews and several of faculty members left in 1798 to teach at the University of Pennsylvania, The Episcopal Academy was reconstituted as a free school.

It operated there until 1921, when it moved to a new campus in suburban Merion, Pennsylvania, on the Main Line of the commuter railroad.

[4] In June 1998, the Episcopal Academy Board of Trustees directed the "active pursuit of a large tract of land in the western suburbs to serve as a long-term asset and a means of preserving future options.

"[5] After receiving a $20 million donation, the Board purchased a 123-acre (0.50 km2) tract of land in Newtown Square on Darby-Paoli Road (Pennsylvania Route 252).

Brailsford & Dunlavey served as the Academy's on-site program manager throughout each phase of the campus development project.

[7] The architecture firms, including Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, Gund Partnership, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, and RMJM Hillier, "coordinated the materials used as well as the landscape layout of the campus, with its pastoral central quadrangle and collegiate-village scale".