| Pictou Academy | |
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| Address | |
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200 Louise Street , , Canada | |
| Coordinates | 45°40′50.9″N 62°42′39.9″W / 45.680806°N 62.711083°W |
| Information | |
| School type | Secondary School |
| Motto | Concordia Salus ((Harmony and Good Health)) |
| Founded | 1815 |
| School board | Chignecto - Central Regional School Board |
| Superintendent | Dr. Noel Hurley |
| Area trustee | Vivian Farrell |
| Administrator | Blair MacDonald |
| Principal | Starr Pettipas |
| Grades | 7-12 |
| Enrollment | 156 (September 2008) |
| Language | English |
| Colour(s) | Red and White |
| Mascot | Pit bull |
| Team name | Pictou Academy Pitbulls |
| Website | pa |
| Last updated: December 12, 2022 | |
Pictou Academy (PA), founded in 1815 by Dr. Thomas McCulloch, is a secondary school in Pictou, Nova Scotia. Prior to the twentieth century, it was a grammar school; a liberal, nonsectarian degree-granting college; and then a secondary school. Pictou Academy's current principal is Starr Pettipas. The Pictou Academy Educational Foundation provides additional funds to the school.
The original site of the academy was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1937, as it symbolized the introduction of nonsectarian education to The Maritimes in the early 19th century.[1]
In 2017 the CCRSB elected a board of supervisors to survey the three schools in the town of Pictou. After a vote in the end process of the surveying the board decided upon closing the building constructed in the 1940s and moving Pictou Academy to the building beside what was formerly known as Dr. Thomas McCulloch Middle School.
- ^ Pictou Academy National Historic Site of Canada. Canadian Register of Historic Places. Retrieved 13 April 2013.