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SPC(St Philip's College)

St. Philip's College
Katiekyle, 8/6/2008, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

San Antonio, Texas · Founded 1898 · Phil the Tiger

Public · Four-year · ~14,000 students

www.alamo.edu/spc · official site

Founding

St. Philip's College opened on March 1, 1898, as a weekend sewing class for six Black girls, founded by the Episcopal Church in San Antonio. In 1931, during the Great Depression, the church was unable to continue supporting the school it had founded.

Source: History, St. Philip's College, read 2026-09-14.

What the school says about itself

Mascot
Phil the TigerSource, read 2026-09-17.

On the official record

Campus address
1801 Martin Luther King Dr, San Antonio, TX 78203-2098
Control
Public
Students
~14,000 students
Directory id
227854
OPE id
00360800
Student aid
Takes part in Title IV student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
Location
1801 Martin Luther King Dr, San Antonio, TX. See it on the Ledger map.
Where this location comes fromCampus location from IPEDS 2024-25This campus location comes from the federal IPEDS 2024-25 record, used as published, so the pin on the map is the campus.IPEDS Institutional Characteristics, Directory information (HD2024), 2024-25 collection, file dated 2025-09-21, retrieved 2026-09-14: coordinate 29.41508, -98.453285 as published. The Census Bureau geocoder also matched this address exactly on 2026-09-14.

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Sources

  1. U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. IPEDS Institutional Characteristics, Directory information (HD2024), 2024-25 provisional data collection. Unit id 227854. https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/data/HD2024.zip. File dated 2025-09-21.
  2. U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education. Higher Education Programs Eligibility Matrix, sheet 'HBCU', dated 2026-06-08. https://www.ed.gov/media/document/fy-2026-higher-education-programs-eligibility-matrix-june-8-2026-114185.xlsx.
  3. History, St. Philip's College. https://www.alamo.edu/spc/about-spc/our-college/history/. Read 2026-09-14.
  4. Mascot Phil the Tiger's Birthday 2019, St. Philip's College. https://www.alamo.edu/spc/news-events/news/2019/march/mascot-phil-the-tigers-birthday-2019/. Read 2026-09-17.
  5. Students: 14,281 total, Fall 2023 (14,281 undergraduate, 0 graduate). IPEDS Fall Enrollment 2023, derived variables (DRVEF2023). https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/data/DRVEF2023.zip. File dated 2024-09-30, read 2026-09-17.
  6. Photograph: Katiekyle, 8/6/2008, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Philip%27s_College.jpg. Retrieved 2026-09-16.
  7. U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, batch address service, benchmark Public_AR_Current. https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/.

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