Mission

  • Prepare students to be successful in their home school or complete requirements to graduate with a high school diploma.

By The Numbers

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    STUDENTS SERVED YEARLY    		 000
    GRADUATES    		 11
    PROGRAMS    		 8
    LOCATIONS    		 000
    STATISTIC

Programs

  • Educational Alternative Programs

    • Beacon High School Immokalee
    • Beacon High School Naples
    • Educational Day Treatment (EDT)

    Teenage Parent Programs

    • Teenage Parent Immokalee (TAPP-I)
    • Teenage Parent Naples (TAPP-N)

    Disciplinary Programs

    • New Beginnings Immokalee (NBI)
    • New Beginnings Naples (NBN)
    • Phoenix Immokalee (PHX-I)
    • Phoenix Naples (PHX-N)

    Juvenile Justice Program

    • Collier Juvenile Detention Center
    • PACE Center for Girls (PACE)

     

History of Alternative Schools

    • Alternative Schools began with the 1996-97 school year as the umbrella school organization for 5 alternative programs in the county, serving a total of 498 students. 
    • In two years, that number more than doubled to 1057 students served in 8 programs. 
    • Since then, several programs have been added and/or expanded, while others have closed.
    • Closed programs include: Parkway, Sunshine School, DRILL, EXCEL, Enhanced Assist, FLAGS, Renaissance Academy, Naples Marine Institute, Collier Half-Way House, Big Cypress Wilderness Institute, and EdOptions Academy.
    • Collier Virtual School(CVS) operated under the supervision of Alternative Schools since it began in 2009; supervision of CVS moved to the district in August 2019.
    • The total served this past year was 1729 students in 11 programs at 8 locations throughout Collier County.

History of Phoenix Program

    • The Phoenix "alternative to explusion program" opened in two locations in 1997, serving 51 students at both sites.
    • In two years, that number doubled. By SY2003, the number of students served in the Phoenix programs doubled again.
    • The Phoenix programs served 333 students during SY2018 as a result of new legislation increasing the requirements for referral to an "alternative to explusion" program; this was a 46% increase over the number of students served the previous year.
    • The totalof 425 for SY2019 was a 28% increase over the number of students served during SY2018.
    • Although referrals for an "alternative to explusion" program ended March 2020 due to COVID-19, the number served by Phoenix during the SY2020 school year was 417.