History
In 1945, the current campus opened in St. Petersburg, Florida, occupying the Jungle Country Club Hotel, a historic landmark in the Tampa Bay area, constructed in 1925. In 1946, Admiral Farragut Academy was designated a "Naval Honor School" by Act of Congress, making it the first such secondary school in the United States.
The original campus in Pine Beach, NJ closed in 1994 and most buildings were demolished in 2003. As of 2008, the infirmary is the only building on the original Pine Beach campus that is still standing.
In the early 1990s, the previously all-boys Academy began accepting female students for the first time.
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