The phrase "academic secondary" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a type of education or institution that focuses on academic subjects at the secondary school level.
Example: "The academic secondary curriculum emphasizes subjects such as mathematics, science, and literature."
Alternatives: "secondary education" or "academic high school".
So nervous that he could not hold a pencil when he sat the entrance exam for academic secondary school, Emanuel was relegated to trade school, where he was trained as a shoemaker.
Kindia is the site of the Pasteur Institute (1925; medical research) and has a general hospital, a mosque, a Roman Catholic mission (1908), and vocational, teacher-training, and academic secondary schools.
The German schoolteachers had a series of about seven status positions, from the classroom teacher in the primary school to the department chairman in the Gymnasium, or academic secondary school.
Academic secondary schools are 4 years in duration, and colleges for higher vocational education are 5 years.
When students are tracked into vocational and academic secondary schools, access to higher education is usually restricted to those who complete an academic track.
Teachers in academic secondary schools, colleges for higher vocational education and schools for intermediate vocational education are included in the variable.
Largely, this categorisation corresponds with Swedish compulsory education (7 16 years of age), vocational secondary education, pre-academic secondary education, college and university-level studies.
Grammar schools in Northern Ireland continue to cater to pupils deemed capable of appreciating an academic education; secondary schools offer more general and vocational training.
In Switzerland, as in Germany, low track students are the natural pool of dual VET students (e.g., Hupka-Brunner et al. 2010), as they are usually not admitted to academic upper secondary education.
Academics were secondary to them.
As Weldon -- a rural Ohio mother of four grown, free-range kids -- documents, numerous studies show that kids brought up in this fashion do as well or better than schooled kids in terms of academics, post secondary training, careers and happiness.
