Three Oaks Academy is a small, private high school for students in recovery from chemical dependency. At Three Oaks, teenagers have the unique opportunity to simultaneously fortify their personal recovery while attaining a fully-accredited high school diploma. Every day, students are provided the ideal conditions to foster a holistic recovery from the ravages of addiction – towards a life of personal, social, and academic success.
Three Oaks Academy was established in 2003 by a small group of counselors, adolescents in recovery, and their families. Originally, Three Oaks Academy was a school where those students in recovery enrolled in a home schooling program could come and receive tutoring and supervision in a safe, caring environment conducive to their recovery. Over the years and with the vision and hard work of the staff, Three Oaks has grown tremendously. At the beginning of the 2008-2009 school year Three Oaks Academy teamed up with Southwest Schools to form a charter school focused on giving those students struggling with drugs and alcohol a recovery-based school to attend.
At Three Oaks Academy, we share a steadfast commitment to provide a first-rate education for all of our students. Students who arrive at Three Oaks frequently test above their grade level in reading and math proficiency, but were disengaged from their home schools; as their disease distorted their priorities, many of our students fell behind academically. At Three Oaks, students are given the opportunity not only to catch up, but to vault ahead towards their true potential. Our relatively small student population ensures an optimal teacher/ student ratio; each student’s needs and learning style is accommodated for, and in certain classes, students are able to work at a pace of their choosing (under the guidance of a Three Oaks faculty member). A healthy recovery requires earned self-esteem, which academic success provides.
Chemical dependency saps hope from the lives of everyone it touches – the addicts themselves, as well as their family and friends. At Three Oaks, we seek to restore students to their true, best selves, free from the chains of addiction and with limitless possibilities before them. With a solid foundation of clinical research, educational best practices, personal experience, and abiding love, the faculty of Three Oaks Academy is able to provide every student the opportunity to, to paraphrase Henry David Thoreau, go confidently in the direction of their dreams.