sentences:  That year the endowment of the academy exceeded $3 million, and the institution's assets exceeded $15 million.After selling its original site and buildings to Southwest Texas State University (now Texas State) in 1979, the Academy moved to its present site.Green and Purple of the Laurel, bind us though we part
  Keep the spirit ever with you, deep within your heart
  Men and women of tomorrow, we’ll be proud of you
  The lives you now are building will be strong and true
  There’ll be echoes in your memory of cadets out on parade
  And of students in the chapel with their heads bowed as they prayed
  Fellowship is given those who come from far and near
  To these hallow’d halls of learning which we hold so dear
  Blessed are the lessons learned, and through the years may we
  Be ever true to you, San Marcos Academy
  
  
  The mascot of SMA is the bear