Academy (disambiguation)

An academy is an institution of secondary education or higher learning, research, or honorary membership.

Academy may also refer to:

Education

• Academy (English school), formerly known as city academy, type of publicly financed but independently run school
• Academy, one of the school organizational models
• French regional academies overseeing education
• Military academy
• National academy
• Platonic Academy, the original Academy founded by the philosopher Plato in ancient Greece circa 385 BCE
• Scottish school naming, in Scotland, a quarter of the secondary schools have the word "academy" in their name

National language regulators

• Académie française, the French Academy, pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language, officially established in 1635
• Accademia della Crusca, the Italian institution seeking to maintain the "purity" of the original Italian language
• Real Academia Española, Spanish Royal Academy, the institution responsible for regulating the Spanish language
• Swedish Academy, founded to further the "purity, strength, and sublimity of the Swedish language

See List of language regulators for complete list.

Arts, entertainment, and media

Awards

• Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España (Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences, or AACCE), a Spanish organization responsible for the Goya Awards
• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), an American organization responsible for the Academy Awards (Oscars)
• List of academic awards, lists articles about academic awards

Films

• Academy (1996 film), an Australian film
• Academy (2007 film), a 2007 Japanese film

Music

• The Academy (EP), an EP by The Academy Is...
• The Academy, previous name for alternative rock band Elliot Minor
• The Academy Drum and Bugle Corps, Tempe, Arizona

Television

Programs

• The Academy (franchise), a Hong Kong television and film police drama franchise
  • The Academy (2005 TV series), the first series in the franchise
• The Academy (TV series), an American reality television series

Episodes

• "Academy", an episode of the Max Headroom TV series
• "The Academy", a fifth-season episode of the fantasy television series, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• Academy (video game), a 1987 ZX Spectrum video game
• The Academy (periodical), a London periodical, 1869–1902, published as The Academy and Literature, 1902–1916

Businesses

• Academi, previously known as Xe Services LLC, Blackwater USA, and Blackwater Worldwide
• Academia.edu, a repository of academic papers and social network for academics
• Academy Bus, bus company based in New Jersey
• Academy Music Group, owner-operator of British music venues (Carling academy)
• Academy Plastic Model Co., Korean scale model manufacturer
• Academy Sports and Outdoors, sporting goods store
• The Academy (Hotel), a London hotel located in the district of Bloomsbury
• The Academy (music venue), located in Dublin, Ireland

Places

United States

• Academy, St. Louis, Missouri
• Academy, South Dakota
• Academy Lake, a lake in South Dakota

Greenland

• Academy Fjord
• Academy Glacier (Greenland)
• Academy Glacier (NW Greenland)

Elsewhere

• Academy, Alberta Canada
• Academy Bay, Galapagos islands
• Academy Bay (Sea of Okhotsk)
• Academy Glacier, Antarctica

Other uses

• Academy (automobile), 1906–1908 British automobile
• The Academy (Heathsville, Virginia), US, a historic house
• House of Providence (Vancouver, Washington), commonly known as the Academy building
• Youth academy, a youth development system attached to a sports club

See also

• Academia (disambiguation)
• Academic (disambiguation)
• Akademy, an annual contributors and users conference of the KDE community
• Royal Academy (disambiguation) for many institutions of this name
• All pages with titles beginning with Academy
• All pages with titles beginning with The Academy