The International Academy, or IA, is a high school located in Bloomfield Hills, Oakland County, Michigan. It is a public, tuition-free school of choice for students of about a dozen Oakland County school districts collaborating in consortium with university and business partners. Students have the opportunity to earn both high school and International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme diplomas. About 88% of the students earn IB degrees.
The school is officially hosted by the Bloomfield Hills School District. It was founded at the initiative of Lambert Okma, now principal, who previously taught economics at Bloomfield Hills Lahser High School.
All graduates of the International Academy are expected to complete the full International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme. While a few students each year graduate without the Diploma, this is not because they are not taking the full 6 subjects required by the IBO but more often because they fail one or more IB tests. All students are enrolled in at least six IB subjects in their junior and senior years. Some students take IBs in their freshman and sophomore years, usually due to an extensive knowledge of math or a foreign language that causes them to place out of all non-IB courses in those subjects.
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