title: Utica Free Academy
text: # Utica Free Academy
  
  Utica Free Academy, whose predecessor, Utica Academy, opened in 1814, was a high school in Utica, New York, which operated from 1840 until 1990, when it was consolidated with Thomas R. Proctor High School. The combined entity operated briefly at UFA's original facility under the name Utica Senior Academy, but by 1993 had been reverted to the Proctor name and heritage.
  
  The last UFA building is now a nursing home.
  
  ## Notable alumni
  
  * Dean Alfange, politician
  * Richard H. Balch, businessperson and politician
  * Tim Capstraw, basketball coach and broadcaster
  * Mark Danner, writer, journalist, and educator
  * Cyrus D. Prescott, politician and lawyer
  * John Ballard Rendall (1847–1924), minister, Lincoln University president, and Pennsylvania state representative
  * Mary Traffarn Whitney (1852–1942), minister, editor, social reformer, philanthropist, lecturer
  