| Aquinas Academy | |
| Streetaddress: | 2308 West Hardies Road |
| City: | Gibsonia |
| State: | Pennsylvania |
| County: | (Allegheny County) |
| Zipcode: | 15044 |
| Country: | USA |
| Coordinates: | 40.5981°N -79.9678°W |
| Religion: | Roman Catholicism |
| President: | Peter Blume |
| Head Of School: | Leslie Mitros |
| Director: | Tyler Deschamps (HS) Michael Flynn (HS) Nicholas Salinas (MS) Michelle Repasky (LS) Sharon Navari (PS) |
| Faculty: | 40 full-time; 6 part-time[1] |
| Sat: | 676 Critical Reading 624 Math 643 Writing |
| Type: | Private, Coeducational |
| Grades: | K-12 |
| Campus Size: | 14acres |
| Conference: | Pittsburgh Diocesan League/WPIAL |
| Motto: | Contemplata aliis tradere |
| Motto Translation: | To hand on to others the fruits of contemplation |
| Accreditation: | Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools[2] |
| Mascot: | Crusader |
| Team Name: | Crusaders |
| Established: | 1996 |
| Enrollment: | 484 |
| Enrollment As Of: | 2022 |
| Free Label: | Asst. Head of School |
| Free Text: | Michael Burchill |
| Free Label1: | Admissions Director |
| Free Text1: | Joseph Austin |
| Free Label2: | Athletic Director |
| Free Text2: | Tom Kayda |
| Free Label3: | Asst. Athletic Director |
| Free Text3: | Jim Richthammer |
| Free Label4: | Director of Sacred Liturgy |
| Free Text4: | Richard Meland |
| Homepage: | AquinasAcademy-Pittsburgh.org |
Aquinas Academy is a private, Roman Catholic K-12 school in Gibsonia, Pennsylvania. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh and consistently ranks in the top 5 schools in western Pennsylvania in its average SAT scores, in some years ranking first. The school also has consistently been named one of the Top Fifty Catholic Secondary Schools in the annual High School Honor Roll published by the Acton Institute https://web.archive.org/web/20110719024745/http://www.pittsburghcatholic.org/newsarticles_more.phtml?id=2362title. The high school was ranked the number one Catholic High School in Pennsylvania in 2015 and 2016 and the number one Catholic High School in the Pittsburgh area by Niche.com.[3] [4]
The Academy was founded in 1996 for the purpose of offering a rigorous classical curriculum covering all the major areas of the liberal arts in an intensive college preparatory program. It is the only independent K-12 Catholic school in the Pittsburgh area.[5]