The Black River Academy is a historic school building on High Street in the village of Ludlow, Vermont.

The Black River Academy building stands on the south side of High Street, a short way west of the Ludlow village green.

It is a three-story masonry structure, built out of load-bearing brick set on a granite foundation.

Windows are of a variety of sizes, but are generally set in round-arched openings.

[3][4][5] Notable alumni of the Black River Academy include U.S. President Calvin Coolidge; Rotary founder Paul P. Harris; John Garibaldi Sargent, who was U.S. Attorney General during Coolidge's presidency; Vermont Governor William W. Stickney; United States Senator Ernest Willard Gibson; Vermont Supreme Court Justice William H. Walker; US Congressman from Missouri Henry M. Pollard; and author and historian Abby Maria Hemenway.