Sayre School is an independent, co-educational school in Lexington, Kentucky. The school enrolls 550 students from preschool to twelfth grade. It has 68 full-time faculty members. David A. Sayre, a New Jersey silversmith who migrated to Lexington where he eventually became a successful banker, founded the school as an all female boarding school in 1854—over a decade before the University of Kentucky first opened its doors. Originally called Transylvania Women's College, the school remained an all female institution until 1876. In the late 19th century the school began a college program giving out associate degrees, and to this day the pillars outside the main entrance state "Sayre College." Sayre dropped its associate degree program because the area was already served by two other colleges