Falmouth Academy (also known as FA) is a non-profit, coed, private college-preparatory school for day students in grades 7–12 located in Falmouth, Massachusetts on Cape Cod.
Falmouth Academy was founded in 1977 by Dr. Richard Hough as a small and rigorously academic day school. Its first classes were held in the basement of a retirement home; two years later, FA moved to another rental property on the Massachusetts Military Reservation in Bourne, Massachusetts. In 1985, Josiah K. Lilly III gave Falmouth Academy 34 acres (140,000 m2) next to prime conservation land, nearer to the town center and between Falmouth centers for medicine and the arts. Four years later, the school moved into the new 16-classroom building in time for the opening of the 1989–1990 school year. Since then, the building has undergone two significant renovations. The first, in 1997, added a gymnasium to accommodate its sports teams. The second was a three-story, 15,000-square-foot (1,400 m2) addition in 2006 that included science labs, art rooms, offices, a computer lab, and a library named in honor of its fifth headmaster, Bruce E. Buxton, and his wife, Patrice. Mr. Buxton served as headmaster from 1982 through 2005; the role is now held by David C. Faus.
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