Robert Land Academy

Robert Land Academy
Coat of Arms - Robert Land Academy
Location
Wellandport, Ontario Canada
Information
School type	Private Boarding School Boys Only Military School
Motto	Deus et Patria (Latin) (God and Country)
Established	1978
Founder	G. Scott Bowman
Oversight	Board of Governors
Headmaster	Kevin Wendling
Faculty	55
Grades	6-12
Number of students	75-125(different in every semester)
Average class size	17 students
Campus	168 acres
Nickname	Loyalists
Tuition	C$50,000
Website	robertlandacademy.com

Robert Land Academy (RLA) is Canada's only non-university level private military academy. Located in the township of West Lincoln on the north shores of the Welland River five kilometres west of the hamlet of Wellandport in West Lincoln, Ontario, the Academy began to accept students in 1978.

The Academy is an all-boy's institution. On average, a total of 160 students between Grade 6 (last year of elementary school) and Grade 12 (last year of high school) are enrolled at the Academy during any one school year.

All students enrolled at the Academy live in military-style dormitories located on-campus throughout the school year. The barracks are normally named in tribute to famous military figures in pre-Confederation Canadian history, such as Major-General Isaac Brock (leader of British forces at the Battle of Queenston Heights during the War of 1812), Major John Butler (leader of the irregular militia regiment named after him, Butler's Rangers, formed for service in the American Revolutionary War), and Joseph Brant (1743–1807) who was a Mohawk military and political leader who was closely associated with Great Britain during and after the American Revolution.

The Academy is serviced by over 55 staff.

The school itself is named after Robert Land, a United Empire Loyalist originally from New York who migrated into what later became Upper Canada with his family in the mid-1780s, in the wake of the American Revolutionary War. Land is often seen as one of the first inhabitants of modern-day Hamilton, Ontario. The Academy's founder and former headmaster (prior to 2015), Lt. Col. Scott Bowman, is a direct descendant of Land.