# 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
* Platonic Academy, the original Academy founded by the philosopher Plato in ancient Greece c. 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)

### 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 (album), an album by Rich Music, Sech and Dalex featuring Justin Quiles, Lenny Tavárez and Feid
** The Academy: Segunda Misión, its sequel
* The Academy, previous name for alternative rock band Elliot Minor
* The Academy Drum and Bugle Corps, Tempe, Arizona

### Television

* The Academy (franchise), a Hong Kong television and film police drama franchise
** The Academy (Hong Kong TV series), the first series in the franchise from 2005
* The Academy (American TV series), a 2007–2008 American reality television series
* "Academy", an episode of the Max Headroom TV series
* "The Academy", a fifth-season episode of the fantasy television series, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
* "The Academy" (Star Wars: The Clone Wars)

### 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
* Academy 1-2-3 (cinema), former art house cinema on Oxford Street, London; closed in 1986
* Academy Cinema, Bristol, cinema (1914–55) in Bristol, United Kingdom

## Businesses

* 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
* O2 Brixton Academy, a music venue in London commonly known as The Academy
* The Academy (hotel), a London hotel located in the district of Bloomsbury
* The Academy (music venue), located in Dublin, Ireland
* The Academy Shopping Centre, Aberdeen

## Places
### United States

* Academy, St. Louis, Missouri
* Academy, South Dakota
* Academy Lake, a lake in South Dakota
* Little River-Academy, Texas, which includes the settlement of Academy

### 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
* National academy
* Youth academy, a youth development system attached to a sports club