The Academy @ Shawnee

The Academy @ Shawnee, is a magnet middle school and high school in the Jefferson County Public School District in Louisville, Kentucky. It is one of five West Louisville schools selected as part of the Signature Partnership initiative with the University of Louisville.

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Type: School
Description: high school in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky
Also known as: “Academy at Shawnee”, “Shawnee High School”, and “Shawnee High School Magnet Career Academy”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Shawnee Park and Portland Museum.

Shawnee Park

Park

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Shawnee Park is a municipal park in Louisville, Kentucky. It was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, who designed 18 of the city's 123 public parks. Along with the rest of the city's Olmsted-designed park system, Shawnee Park was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

Portland Museum

Museum

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The Portland Museum is a neighborhood history and art museum in Louisville, Kentucky. It details the history of the Portland neighborhood both as an independent town in the early 1800s and after Portland's amalgamation into Louisville after the construction of the Louisville and Portland Canal. Portland Museum is situated 1½ miles east of The Academy @ Shawnee.

Town Clock Church

Church

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The Town Clock Church, now the Second Baptist Church of New Albany, Indiana, United States, is a historic church located at 300 East Main Street, within the New Albany Downtown Historic District. Town Clock Church is situated 1½ miles north of The Academy @ Shawnee.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Shawnee and Portland.

Shawnee

Hamlet

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Shawnee is a neighborhood in western Louisville, Kentucky. Its boundaries are the Ohio River on the West, Bank Street and the Portland neighborhood on the North, I-264 on the East, and West Broadway on the South.

Portland

Hamlet

Portland is a historic district, neighborhood and former independent town northwest of downtown Louisville, Kentucky. It is situated along a bend of the Ohio River just below the Falls of the Ohio National Wildlife Conservation Area, where the river curves to the north and then to the south, thus placing Portland at the northern tip of urban Louisville.

Parkland

Hamlet

Parkland is a neighborhood in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. Its boundaries are 34th Street on the west, West Broadway on the north, Woodland Avenue on the south, and 26th Street on the east.