Academy

• a secondary school (usually private)
• an institution for the advancement of art or science or literature
• a school for special training
• a learned establishment for the advancement of knowledge
• 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.
• An academy is an institution for the study of higher learning.
• government sponsored art school