George Stevens Academy is an independent, comprehensive town academy in Blue Hill, a small coastal town on a scenic rural peninsula. Founded as Blue Hill Academy in 1803, it was the first secondary school to open its doors east of the Penobscot River in Down East Maine.The school serves as the 9-12 high school for more than 300 students from local towns, across the U.S., and around the globe. The academy offers a wide variety of academic classes to meet the diverse needs, aptitudes, and interests of the student body. Though college preparatory courses make up the majority of the approximately 150 offered, foundations courses are also available, as are about three dozen honors and Advanced Placement courses.Extracurricular offerings include numerous clubs and activities, among them the Drama Club and GSA Jazz Band, which won state championships 19 times in the three decades before the MMEA stopped bestowing that honor. The school also has 29 teams in 12 sports. The athletics teams have won more than five dozen regional championships and 19 state championships in the school’s history, with more than two-thirds won since the year 2000.
