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college preparatory school in Rensselaer, New York. The School is coeducational and interfaith, and it educates students from early childhood through Grade 12.

History

The Doane Stuart School ("Doane Stuart") was founded in 1975 as the result of a merger between the Roman Catholic Kenwood Academy (founded by the

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in 1852) and the Episcopal St. Agnes School (founded 1870). The name "Doane Stuart" was chosen to honor the first Episcopal Bishop of Albany, the Right Reverend

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, and Roman Catholic educator

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. Doane Stuart's first home was the campus of the old Kenwood Academy in Albany, New York. Doane Stuart was established as an ecumenical Christian school, but later became an interfaith school. In 2007, the School offered to purchase the former Kenwood Academy from the Society of the Sacred Heart for $7.2 million. The Society rejected the offer. In March 2008, the Board of Trustees of Doane Stuart announced it had decided to end its affiliation with the Network of Sacred Heart Schools due to religious differences. At about the same time, the Society of the Sacred Heart notified the school it would not renew its lease of the former Kenwood Academy. On May 20, 2008, Rensselaer, New York voters approved the proposed sale of the former Van Rensselaer High School to Doane Stuart; Doane Stuart purchased the building for $4 million in September 2008. After a year-long renovation and restoration effort, Doane Stuart opened on September 16, 2009, at the School's new location. The Doane Stuart School building in Rensselaer, New York was listed on the

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in 2012. As of April 2016, the School's 22,000-square-foot "green roof" was reportedly the largest vegetative roof in the Capital District. The school is co-educational and college preparatory, and educates students from Early Childhood through Grade 12.

Exchange program

The School hosts an Irish American Exchange program, begun in 2003, which brings together Protestant and Catholic students from

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(a secondary school in

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, Northern Ireland) to spend a year at Doane Stuart and live with local families. According to the Albany ''Times Union'', as of 2014, 22 exchange students from Lagan College had spent a school year studying at Doane Stuart, while approximately 100 Doane Stuart students had made one-week visits to Lagan College.

Notable alumni

* Paul Carey - White House Special Assistant to U.S. President Bill Clinton and 77th Commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission. *

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(St. Agnes School) - prominent female member of the early

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circle. * Alice Morgan Wright (St. Agnes School) - American sculptor,

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, and

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activist. She was one of the first American artists to embrace Cubism and Futurism. *

David Yezzi David Dalton Yezzi (born 1966) is an American poet, editor, actor, and professor. He currently teaches poetry in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. Life Yezzi was born in Albany, New York Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hem ...

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