SAA News & Events

SAA 8th Grade Graduates gets a visit from award winning poet, Naomi Shihab Nye.

We are so incredibly proud of our graduates, who are headed to some amazing high schools.

A pandemic was not going to stop us from celebrating SAA's Class of 2020. Visit this special webpage in honor of our cadets. 

To take their engineering efforts to the next, the RoBuccaneers got an opportunity to witness first hand a real crew at work filling a pothole. 

San Antonio Academy’s music specialist Dr. Owen Duggan’s 2005 debut album, An Elephant Never Forgets, received numerous awards and accolades from national parenting organizations to songwriter’s associations. Applauded for his positive messages and wide appeal, Owen’s songs have brought joy to many, but in his latest album, Honey on My Mind, Owen pays tribute to another songwriter, Doug McNeel (SAA Class of 1966), whose sudden passing last year left a sizable catalog of songs.

The annual Alumni vs. 8^th Grade Basketball Game is an event both Academy boys and alumni look forward to each year. The tradition, beginning about two decades ago, is a friendly competition between the 8^th Grade Wildcat Basketball Team and SAA alumni -- whose ages span across the generations.

Philippe Jones had an idea to help introduce the game of tennis to kids who typically don’t have the opportunity to play. With no experience but lots of passion, this third grader, with the help from ‘a small village,’ set out to see his vision come to fruition.