The Kiski School

The Kiski School, formally the Kiskiminetas Springs School after the Kiskiminetas River, is a private, all-male boarding school located in Saltsburg, Pennsylvania, about 40 miles (60 km) east of Pittsburgh. It is the oldest remaining non-military all-male boarding school in the United States.

The school has an enrollment of about 210, including grade 9-12 and postgraduate (PG) students About 35 percent of the student body are international students. There are 36 faculty members.

History

Andrew W. Wilson founded the Kiski School in 1888 on a wooded hill overlooking the Kiskiminetas River separating Westmoreland County from Indiana County that he had purchased, on land that had once been a summer resort and mineral spa. Forty-two students had graduated from Kiski by 1894; 26 of them went to Princeton. The original faculty consisted of just Wilson (who had graduated from Princeton and Pennsylvania Law School, and school co-founder R. W. Fair, who taught mathematics.

Dr. W. H. MacColl succeeded Wilson as president in 1930. J. L. Marks and Colonel J. J. Daub were also influential early faculty.