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St Philip's College

San Antonio, Texas · Public · Four-year · Founded 1898

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.

As the Department of Education lists it

Campus address
1801 Martin Luther King Dr, San Antonio, TX 78203-2098
Control
Public
IPEDS unit id
227854
OPE id
00360800
Federal student aid
Participates in Title IV federal student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
On the map
Placed on the Ledger map by an exact match from the U.S. Census Bureau geocoder on 2026-09-14: 1801 MARTIN LUTHER KING DR, SAN ANTONIO, TX, 78203. See it on the Ledger map.

No enrollment figure is published on this page. The Ledger prints one only with a dated NCES citation, and none is attached to this record.

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. U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, batch address service, benchmark Public_AR_Current. https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/.

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