Sydney Academy (often abbreviated as SA and often referred to as "The Academy") is one of two main secondary schools, along with Riverview Rural High School, that service the former 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. The IB program started in the summer of 1987.
Sydney Academy High School covers grades 10 to 12. It offers Pre-IB courses in grade 10, and full IB courses 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.
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