However, it still costs the state about $21,000 a year to support one Academy student.
Academy students are be expected to work at the college level in most of their courses.
Some parents of academy students pack up and move as well.
And 15 percent of this year's academy students made the high school's honor role.
"But there isn't any evening here," protests one of the Academy students.
The Academy students were also concerned about the depiction of them in the press as "at risk."
From 1886-1931 some of the academy students were boarded on the campus.
The first class of naval academy students graduated on 10 June 1854.
Many former academy students have gone on to high rank in the diplomatic and civil services.
In the same year, 1770, he entered as an Academy student and won the silver medal.