| Sydney Academy | |
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| Address | |
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49 Terrace Street , , Canada | |
| Coordinates | 46°8′18.1″N 60°10′50.4″W / 46.138361°N 60.180667°W |
| Information | |
| School type | Secondary |
| Motto | Pro Salute Academiae et Disciplorum (For the good of the Academy and its Students) |
| Founded | 1841 |
| School board | Cape Breton – Victoria Regional School Board |
| Principal | Kathi McConnell-Hore[1] |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 800 |
| Language | English |
| Colour(s) | Blue and White |
| Mascot | Wildcat |
| Team name | Wildcats |
| Website | sites |
Sydney Academy (often abbreviated as SA and once often referred to as "The Academy"[citation needed]) is one of two main secondary schools, along with Riverview Rural High School, that service the city of Sydney, Nova Scotia. Its current building, at 49 Terrace Street, is an educational facility opened in 1959, and is the sixth building to house the school. It is the oldest school in the Sydney area, and once was a private school near the end of the 19th century. The Academy is the Cape Breton Regional Municipality's (CBRM) only school to offer the International Baccalaureate (IB) program, which began in the summer of 1987.[2]
Sydney Academy High School covers grades 9 to 12. It offers an unofficial preparatory program for the IB in grades 9 and 10, with full IB courses available to students in grades 11 and 12. The school offers co-ed classes in all grades. It is estimated that in its first 150 years, Sydney Academy graduated over 25,000 students. In recent years, the school has experienced a lag in numbers, as graduates emigrate and families from Cape Breton move to other parts of Canada in search of employment.
The 2015–2016 school year introduced grades 9-12, as per changes to the middle school model implemented by the Cape Breton-Victoria Regional School board.[3]
- ^ "Staff". Archived from the original on 2 July 2018.
- ^ "Sydney Academy". IB World Schools. The Hague, Netherlands: International Baccalaureate Organization. 2012. Archived from the original on 10 September 2012. Retrieved 31 December 2009.
- ^ "Saltwire | Cape Breton".