Nile Academy


Nile Academy , located in the Humber Summit neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, is a Canadian private school for students between Kindergarten and Grade Twelve. Originally founded in 2005 by Muslim Turkish immigrants belonging to the Hizmet Movement in order to better serve the growing Turkish-Canadian community, the school now has a wide range of students from a variety of backgrounds, most notably from the Somali community.

Campuses

At one point, Nile Academy had three campuses; one boys' school, one girls' high school with co-ed K-8, and one elementary school. However, the Plunkett and Scarborough Campuses were shut down, and consecutively merged with the Blue Haven Campus in 2016 to form a single school on a single campus.

Extracurricular activities

Nile Academy actively competes in regional student competitions in sports, mathematics, robotics, and the sciences, in tournaments such as OFSAA and the , among others. Nile Academy also offers supplementary programs for chess, fine arts, water marbling, drama, choir, guitar, violin, and wrestling. The school is part of the Toronto District College Athletic Association, even though it is not a Catholic school or part of the TCSDB.

Partnerships and affiliated organizations

The school is funded by the followers and business partners of the Hizmet Movement. The school also partners with organizations and non-profits such as the , the , the , the , the , and various governmental organizations of Canada such as the Toronto Police Services. The school is a strong supporter of intercultural dialogue and humanitarianism, and has sent many expeditions to countries in Africa and the West Indies.

Controversies

The vast majority of the students and staff of Nile Academy practice the Hanafi maddhab of Sunni Islam, and the school is directly linked to Turkish preacher and writer, Fethullah Gulen, who currently resides in the State of Pennsylvania. The school is controversial in the Canadian-Turkish community due to its ties to the Hizmet Movement, which has been accused of perpetrating the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt. The school has -on many occasions- been the target of a shutdown request by the Government of Turkey through formal requests to the Federal Canadian Government in Parliament Hill.

Notable Alumnus

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