The Academy of Finance was first established in 1982 by the National Academy Foundation. The Academy of Finance is one of the four member programs sponsored by the National Academy Foundation (AOF, AOIT, AOHT, AOE). It is a small learning community that offers high school students an opportunity to study accounting, international trade, leadership, and the use of technology in preparing for college and the financial services industry. It also allows students to earn college credit while still in secondary education. The program is offered in more than 260 secondary education institutions nationwide.

The National Academy Foundation was the vision of P. Frankfort, the Director of the Academy of Finance

Academy of Finance

The Academy of Finance was first established in 1982 by the National Academy Foundation. The Academy of Finance is one of the four member programs sponsored by the National Academy Foundation...

 that she established in 1989. In 1981, she designed a program for the New York City Department of Education and for Shearson Lehman Brothers chaired by Sanford I. Weill

Sanford I. Weill

Sanford I. "Sandy" Weill is an American banker, financier and philanthropist. He is a former chief executive officer and chairman of Citigroup. He served in those positions until October 1, 2003, and April 18, 2006, respectively....

. Her proposal for the "Institute for the Study of Finance" recommended a program for public high school students. Weill's gave $100,000 to develop the program through the firm's foundation, headed by D. Topol. This was matched by the New York City Board of Education. Frankfort designed and implemented the program and the he first Academy of Finance opened at John Dewey High School in Brooklyn in 1982 with 35 students. The program was designed to introduce young people in New York City to potential careers in the financial services industry.

Weill explained in his testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee: "You saw young people playing in the street, young people without having a clue of what life was about, and how they can become part of the system. That was the beginning of the idea that maybe the private sector should get together with the public sector and see if we can create a high-school level program that can expose young people for a career in the financial services industry."

Schools offering the program

• Northern High School (Owings, Maryland)
  Northern High School (Owings, Maryland)
  Northern High School is a public secondary school located in the Owings, Maryland in Calvert County.The school is located directly next to Northern Middle School.-Statistics:...
  
  
• Huntingtown High School
  Huntingtown High School
  Huntingtown High School is located at 4125 North Solomons Island Road, Huntingtown, Maryland , 20639. Completed and opened in 2004, HHS is currently home to some seventeen hundred students from grades 9 to 12...
  
   (Huntingtown, Maryland)
• Calvert High School (Prince Frederick, Maryland)
  Calvert High School (Prince Frederick, Maryland)
  Calvert High School is a public high school in Prince Frederick, Maryland and is part of the Calvert County Public Schools.The campus is on Dares Beach Road and includes the main school building, a field house for basketball and other sporting events, a football stadium, a baseball field, tennis...
  
  
• Patuxent High School
  Patuxent High School
  Patuxent High School is a comprehensive, four-year public high school in Lusby, Calvert County, Maryland, USA. The school draws from the communities of Cove Point, the Chesapeake Ranch Estates, Drum Point and Solomons....
  
   (Lusby, Maryland)
• Phillip and Sala Burton Academic High School in San Francisco, CA
• Coral Glades High School
  Coral Glades High School
  Coral Glades High School is a public high school located in Coral Springs, Florida, built in 2004. It is part of the Broward School District....
  
   in Coral Springs, Florida
  Coral Springs, Florida
  Coral Springs, officially chartered July 10, 1963, is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States, approximately northwest of Fort Lauderdale. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city had a population of 121,096...
  
  
• Sanderson High School
  Sanderson High School
  Sanderson's sports team play under the Sparta identity. The school's motto is "Sumus Spartani. Sumus Optimi." which is Latin for "We are the Spartans. We are the best." Their athletic director is Tony Lewis, also the head football coach...
  
   in Raleigh, NC
• Northwestern High School
  Northwestern High School (Hyattsville, Maryland)
  Northwestern High School , established in 1951, is a public comprehensive secondary school located in Hyattsville, Maryland in Prince George's County, less than a mile from the internationally known University of Maryland, College Park. It is part of the Prince George's County Public Schools system...
  
   in Hyattsville, Maryland
  Hyattsville, Maryland
  Hyattsville is a city in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. The population was 17,557 at the 2000 census.- History :The city was named for its founder, Christopher Clark Hyatt. He purchased his first parcel of land in the area in March 1845...
  
  
• Douglas Byrd High School in Fayetteville, North Carolina
  Fayetteville, North Carolina
  Fayetteville is a city located in Cumberland County, North Carolina, United States. It is the county seat of Cumberland County, and is best known as the home of Fort Bragg, a U.S. Army post located northwest of the city....
  
  
• Paint Branch High School
  Paint Branch High School
  Paint Branch High School is a high school located in Burtonsville, an unincorporated section of Montgomery County, Maryland.It is named after the Paint Branch creek. The school was founded in 1969 and is part of the Montgomery County Public Schools System. The school lies on Old Columbia Pike,...
  
  
• Dunwoody High School
  Dunwoody High School
  Dunwoody High School is a public high school in Dunwoody, an incorporated city in DeKalb County, Georgia, United States and is operated by the DeKalb County School System...
  
  
• Coral Gables Senior High School in Coral Gables, Fl
• Fort Lee High School
  Fort Lee High School
  Fort Lee High School is a four year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grade from Fort Lee, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Fort Lee School District...
  
   in Fort Lee, NJ
• Franklin High School in Seattle, Washington
  Seattle, Washington
  Seattle is the county seat of King County, Washington. With 608,660 residents as of the 2010 Census, Seattle is the largest city in the Northwestern United States. The Seattle metropolitan area of about 3.4 million inhabitants is the 15th largest metropolitan area in the country...
  
  
• Independence High School
• Business Careers High School
  Business Careers High School
  Business Careers High School is a business magnet high school part of the Northside Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas. It is a "school within a school" located on the campus of Oliver Wendell Holmes High School. The school attracts students who want to study business and other...
  
  
• Walter M. Williams High School
• Buchholz High School
  Buchholz High School
  F. W. Buchholz High School is a high school in Gainesville, Florida. Buchholz is one of seven high schools in Alachua County. Opened in January 1971, it is the largest of the public high schools in Gainesville...
  
  
• West Seneca East High School
• Northeast High School
  Northeast High School (St. Petersburg, Florida)
  Northeast High School is a high school located in St. Petersburg, Florida. The school is part of the Pinellas County Schools district. The school mascot is the Viking and the school colors are scarlet, cream, and black...
  
  
• Center Grove High School
  Center Grove High School
  Center Grove High School is a four star high school located in Greenwood, Indiana, United States. The mascot is a Trojan, as are the names of all of its sports teams...
  
  
• Greenfield High School
• Columbus East High School
  Columbus East High School
  Columbus East High School is one of two high schools in Columbus, Indiana. It was founded in 1972 due to the growing educational demands of the community. As the population of the community rose, Columbus High School could not support all school age students...
  
  
• Hamilton Southeastern High School
  Hamilton Southeastern High School
  Hamilton Southeastern High School is a four-star, Blue Ribbon public high school in Fishers, Indiana, a town north of Indianapolis. It is a part of the Hamilton Southeastern School District...
  
  
• Northwest High School
  Northwest High School (Montgomery County, Maryland)
  Northwest High School is a public high school in unincorporated Germantown, Maryland.-History:Northwest is part of the Montgomery County Public Schools. As of 2006, its enrollment was over 2,000 students. It is one of two high schools in Germantown, the other being Seneca Valley High School, with...
  
  
• North Rockland High School
  North Rockland High School
  North Rockland High School is a high school located in Thiells, New York, serving 10th to 12th grade students from the northern section of Rockland County, in southern New York. It is the only high school in the Haverstraw-Stony Point District....
  
  
• North Tonawanda High School
  North Tonawanda High School
  North Tonawanda High School or N.T.H.S., is a public high school located in North Tonawanda, New York. N.T.H.S. is the high school for the North Tonawanda City School District.-Spirit Week:...
  
  
• Perry Meridian High School
  Perry Meridian High School
  Perry Meridian High School is a high school located at 400 W. Meridian School Road in Indianapolis, Indiana, 46217, on the far southside of the city. It is one of two public high schools serving grades nine through twelve in the Perry Township, along with Southport High School...
  
  
• Pike High School
  Pike High School
  Pike High School is a public high school on the northwest side of Indianapolis, Indiana.-Academics:Pike High School serves students in grades 9–12 in the Metropolitan School District of Pike Township....
  
  
• Spruce Creek High School
  Spruce Creek High School
  Spruce Creek High School is a public secondary school located in the city of Port Orange, Florida. It is the largest IB high school in North America and is one of Newsweek's Top 100 High Schools.. Spruce Creek High School is part of the Volusia County Schools system, which encompasses eight other...
  
  
• Paul Robeson High School
  Paul Robeson High School for Business and Technology
  Paul Robeson High School for Business and Technology is a high school in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York City, New York. It is a part of the New York City Department of Education.-External links:*...
  
  
• Southport High School
  Southport High School
  Southport High School is a high school located at 971 East Banta Road in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. Located in Perry Township, on the south side of the city, Southport is a part of the Metropolitan School District of Perry Township....
  
  
• Flanagan High School
• John Dewey High School
  John Dewey High School
  John Dewey High School, commonly referred to as JDHS or just Dewey is a public school in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, founded and based on the educational principles of John Dewey. It opened in the Fall of 1969 and is located at 50 Avenue X at the Gravesend/Bensonhurst-Bath Beach border of...
  
  
• East Davidson High School
  East Davidson High School
  East Davidson High School is a public high school located in Thomasville, North Carolina.The mascot of East Davidson is the Golden Eagles. The colors for East Davidson are Gold, Black, and White. East Davidson is located in Davidson County, North Carolina. The high school is headed by principal Mr...
  
  
• James Madison High School (New York)
  James Madison High School (New York)
  James Madison High School is a public high school located at 3787 Bedford Avenue, in the Madison section of Brooklyn, New York, and educates grades 9 through 12. It is part of Region 6 in the New York City Department of Education...
  
  
• Northport High School
  Northport High School
  Northport High School is a four-year secondary school in Northport, New York that serves as the high school for the Northport-East Northport Union Free School District which is composed of Northport, Eatons Neck, Asharoken and much of East Northport, all located in the Town of Huntington...
  
   in Northport, Long Island
• Westport High School
  Westport High School (Missouri)
  Westport High School was a comprehensive high school located at 315 East 39th Street in Kansas City, Missouri. It was part of the Kansas City, Missouri School District. A trowel was used to lay the cornerstone of the school on June 8, 1907...
  
  
• William R. Boone High School
  William R. Boone High School
  William R. Boone High School is a public high school in Orlando, Florida, United States. Built in 1952, the school is one of twenty high schools in the Orange County Public Schools system, created to accommodate the growing number of students at Orlando High School...
  
  
• Overlea High School
  Overlea High School
  Overlea High School is a four-year public high school in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. The school was opened in 1961.-About the School:...
  
  
• New Hyde Park Memorial High School
  New Hyde Park Memorial High School
  New Hyde Park Memorial Junior/Senior High School is a six-year public high school in New Hyde Park, New York, as part of the Sewanhaka Central High School District. Like the four other high schools in the Sewanhaka Central district, the school is home to grades 7 to 12, a combined middle and high...
  
  
• Waipahu High School
  Waipahu High School
  Waipahu High School is located at 94-1211 Farrington Highway in Waipahu on the island of Oahu in the state of Hawaii. Waipahu High School was founded in 1938 under the Session Laws of 1937 and Act 191 of 1938. The first graduates of Waipahu High School were from the class of 1941. The last...
  
  
• Lancaster High School (New York)
• Omaha Bryan High School
  Omaha Bryan High School
  Omaha Bryan High School is a public high school located in Bellevue, Nebraska, United States. It is a part of Omaha Public Schools.-History:The building for William Jennings Bryan Senior High School was completed in 1971. It was named after the Nebraska politician...
  
  
• Orchard Park High School
  Orchard Park High School
  Orchard Park High School is a secondary school in Orchard Park, New York. The school has approximately 1725 children in grades 9-12. The students are divided among three houses with a principal for each house and a principal who oversees the entire school....
  
  
• Charles Herbert Flowers High School
  Charles Herbert Flowers High School
  Charles Herbert Flowers High School is located in Springdale of Prince George's County, Maryland. United States. The principal is Ms. Helena Nobles-Jones.Flowers High School's motto is "Mecca of Excellence."-History:...
  
  
• Lansdowne High School
  Lansdowne High School
  Lansdowne High School , formerly known as Lansdowne Sr. High School, and currently known as the Lansdowne High School Academy for Advanced Professional Studies, is a four-year public high school in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States....
  
  
• Oak Grove High School (San Jose, California)
  Oak Grove High School (San Jose, California)
  Oak Grove High School is a secondary school located in San Jose, California which serves students in grades 9–12. Average student enrollment is 2800 students, compared to the state average of 900 students. The school is part of the East Side Union High School District...
  
  
• Highland School of Technology
  Highland School of Technology
  Highland School of Technology is a magnet public high school located in Gastonia, North Carolina, United States. It is the first magnet school available to students in the Gaston County Schools public school district and draws students from each of the other eight high schools in the district...
  
  
• Brandon High School
  Brandon High School
  - History :The school originally opened in 1914 on the current site of McLane Middle School. In 1972, the school moved to its current location on Victoria Street in Brandon. The school colors are maroon and white. The school mascot is the Eagle. Brandon High is currently a "B" school on SDHC's high...
  
   Brandon High School
  Brandon High School
  - History :The school originally opened in 1914 on the current site of McLane Middle School. In 1972, the school moved to its current location on Victoria Street in Brandon. The school colors are maroon and white. The school mascot is the Eagle. Brandon High is currently a "B" school on SDHC's high...
  
  
• Bishop Ward High School
  Bishop Ward High School
  Bishop Ward High School is a private, coed, Roman Catholic high school in Kansas City, Kansas. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas.-History:...
  
  
• Tottenville High School
  Tottenville High School
  Tottenville High School is located at 100 Luten Avenue, in Huguenot, Staten Island, New York. It is within walking distance of the Huguenot train station of the Staten Island Railway system. Tottenville H.S. is in administrative district 31. The school’s current principal is John P. Tuminaro...
  
   on Staten Island, NY
• Amos P. Godby High School (Tallahassee)
• T.C. Willams High School
• Fort Hamilton HS (Brooklyn NYC)
  Fort Hamilton High School
  Fort Hamilton High School is a public high school in Brooklyn, New York, USA, under the jurisdiction of the New York City Department of Education. Students in Bay Ridge, Sunset Park and Dyker Heights are zoned to Fort Hamilton HS. It has stood overlooking the Narrows and Lower New York Bay since...
  
  
• Middletown High School in Middletown, New York
  Middletown, Orange County, New York
  Middletown is a city in Orange County, New York, United States. It lies in New York's Hudson Valley region, near the Wallkill River and the foothills of the Shawangunk Mountains. Middletown is situated between Port Jervis and Newburgh, New York. The city's population was 25,388 at the 2000 census...
  
  
• Carroll High School
  Carroll High School (Fort Wayne, Indiana)
  Carroll High School is a school in the unincorporated suburbs of Fort Wayne, Indiana accredited by North Central Association in the upper-middle class district of Northwest Allen County Schools. At about 1,700 students and expanding, officials established a freshman campus in 2005 for ninth...
  
   in Fort Wayne, Indiana
  Fort Wayne, Indiana
  Fort Wayne is a city in the US state of Indiana and the county seat of Allen County. The population was 253,691 at the 2010 Census making it the 74th largest city in the United States and the second largest in Indiana...
  
  
• John Dewey High School
  John Dewey High School
  John Dewey High School, commonly referred to as JDHS or just Dewey is a public school in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, founded and based on the educational principles of John Dewey. It opened in the Fall of 1969 and is located at 50 Avenue X at the Gravesend/Bensonhurst-Bath Beach border of...
  
   (Brooklyn, New York)
• Gloucester High School (Virginia)
  Gloucester High School (Virginia)
  Gloucester High School is a fully accredited public high school located four miles from Gloucester Courthouse in Gloucester County, Virginia, USA. It is operated by Gloucester County Public Schools, a Virginia public school division....
  
  
• Jamaica High School (New York City)
  Jamaica High School (New York City)
  Jamaica High School is a four-year public high school in Queens, New York. The school is administered by the New York City Department of Education.-History:...
  
  

See also

• National Academy Foundation
• Academy of Hospitality and Tourism
  Academy of Hospitality and Tourism
  The Academy of Hospitality and Tourism is one of the three major programs sponsored by the National Academy Foundation which provides students with skills and knowledge necessary for travel. The program teaches students in the art of geography, economics and tourism business as well as hospitality...
  
  
• Academy of Information Technology
  Academy of Information Technology
  The Academy of Information Technology is one of the three major programs sponsored by the National Academy Foundation which provides students with knowledge of technology and its ever expanding universe. It was formed in 2000, with the first graduating class being the class of 2004, and was the...
  
  
• Academy of Engineering
  Academy of Engineering
  The Academy of Engineering or AOE is the latest addition to the academies governed by the National Academy Foundation in partnership with Project Lead the Way and the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering in the United States of America. The AOE partnership brought in the first...