Every season of The Academy ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best seasons of The Academy!

Black Monday

Tighten Your Bootstraps

My O'Miley

Hell Is Coming to Breakfast

Heart Stopping Action

Where the Rubber Meets the Road

Academy Fling

Back to Business

Coming Together

Colors Run

Graduation Day

Another Black Monday

The Ultimatum

Soup Sandwich

Trigger Happy

On The Line

Command Presence

A Fatal Mistake

When The Smoke Clears

The Uniform

Pomp & Circumstance

It Starts Today

Ears Back, Hair on Fire

Attention To Detail

The Mid-term

The Heat Turns Up

Fire Ground Pace

Day in the Life

Mission: De-con

It's Do or Die

The Academy is a reality television series that provides a behind-the-scenes look at police recruits of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Academy as they go through an 18-week training course to become deputies of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. The program premiered in May 2007 on Fox Reality Channel with class 355. As of fall 2007, the series is also aired on MyNetworkTV. There were 111 recruits to start out and 24 were separated. Separations occur when recruits fail make-up exams, simply decide to resign due to injury or by personal choice, or when the instructors feel the recruit shouldn't continue with training.

The lead drill instructor was Deputy Miley a.k.a. "The Ramrod". Class 355 was mostly made of recruits for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, but there were recruits for other agencies as well such as the Los Angeles Port Police, Torrance Police Department, Inglewood Police Department, Redondo Beach Police Department, and the Pomona Police Department. The finale for the first season was on Thursday, August 2, 2007.

Fox Reality started taping the second season of the show in early November 2007 at the STARS Center, the Los Angeles County Sheriff academy. The second season premiere aired on May 24, 2008, and the second season finale aired on July 26, 2008. The third season of The Academy, which premiered on October 24, 2009 provides a behind-the-scenes look at recruits of the Orange County Fire Authority, California.

The Best Seasons of The Academy

The Best Seasons of The Academy

Season 1

Season 2

Season 3