"Academy" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH

In its original meaning, an association formed for mutual improvement, or for the advancement of science or art; ln later use, a species of educational institution, of a grade between tbe common school and the college. Academy of Fine Arts v. Pliila-delphia County, 22 Pa. 496; Commonwealth v. Banks, 198 Pa. 397, 48 Atl. .277; Blackwell v. State, 36 Ark. 178

A society of learned men united for the advancement of the
arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science;
as, the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences;
academies of literature and philology.

A place of training; a school.

A school or place of training in which some special art is
taught; as, the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the
Academy of Music.

An institution for the study of higher learning; a college
or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding
a rank between a college and a common school.

A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero
Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical
conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head.