Academy
- in Scotland, the word academy may be used in several different contexts, but in relation to public buildings it often denotes a school for higher secondary education (i.e. for young people from the ages of 11/12 to 17/18), generally set up in a burgh by the local authority. The term was derived from the English Dissenting Academies of the 18th century, run on similar lines. In Scotland the word may now be applied to any state secondary school. Very often it is also part of the formal title of the institution, as in the names of Kilmarnock Academy, Belmont Academy and Prestwick Academy in Ayrshire.