The Academy moved from Newark to its current location, a 68-acre (280,000 m 2) campus in Livingston, in 1964, and became fully co-educational in 1971. After 1929, it moved to First Street in the Roseville section of Newark. In 1802, the Academy opened a separate division for girls, but this program was closed in 1859. The school then reopened in new quarters in 1792. Newark Academy was briefly closed after it was burned by the British during the Revolutionary War. The Academy was founded in 1774 by Alexander MacWhorter, a prominent cleric and advisor to George Washington, and was located on Market Street in Downtown Newark. Newark Academy is one of several pre-Revolutionary War schools still operating in the United States and is considered the seventh-oldest private school in the country and the second-oldest day school in the state of New Jersey (behind Rutgers Preparatory School). The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1928. state of New Jersey, serving students in sixth through twelfth grades. Newark Academy is a coeducational private day school located in Livingston, Essex County, in the U.S. New Jersey Association of Independent Schools Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Montclair Kimberley Academy The Pingry School
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