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.