Wallingford Academy was a school for "Colored" children in Charleston, South Carolina.

It was organized by Jonathan C. Gibbs a minister with the Zion Presbyterian Church and opened in 1865.

[3] In 1896, nurse training sessions led by Dr. Lucy Hughes Brown included theoretical lectures held in the auditorium of Wallingford Academy.

Attempts to hold practical training of African American nurses at the City Hospital and Old Folks Home were rebuffed.

In 1897 the Hospital and Training School for Nurses, co-founded by Alonzo Clifton McClennan, was chartered by the South Carolina legislature.