Alternative Schools in Lafayette, La.

Lafayette Parish Alternative Program for Students

• The Lafayette Parish Alternative Program for Students, operated by the Lafayette Public School System, offers an educational alternative for students who have been expelled from school. Students must be in grades 6 to 12 and currently enrolled in a Lafayette Parish school to be eligible. The student must apply to the program within 5 school days of the expulsion hearing that resulted in removal from the current school. Prospective students participate in an interview and orientation process prior to admission. The program accepts students who have been expelled for violent behavior, drug possession and possession of a weapon. The program emphasizes accountability and responsibility by including physical skills training and instruction in social skills.

  Lafayette Parish Alternative Program for Students
  113 Chaplin Drive
  Lafayette, LA 70508
  (337) 521-7000
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Continuing Academic Program for Students (CAPS)

• The public schools also operate the Continuing Academic Program for Students (CAPS). Admission requirements are similar to those for the Alternative Program, but this program accepts students from grades 4 to 12. Students must follow a dress code and wear a uniform. The school strives to meet students' educational needs while effecting "behavior change through the process of re-thinking, re-evaluating and re-directing student's mindsets."

  Continuing Academic Program for Students
  113 Chaplin Drive
  Lafayette, LA 70508
  (337) 521-7000
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Lafayette Charter High School

• The Lafayette Charter High School is a third public school option. Charter High emphasizes technology-based education. Students may opt to attend classes in the afternoon or in the evening and are allowed to set their own pace for making progress toward graduation. As a site for the Computers for Louisiana Kids Program, the school offers certificate programs in a full range of information technology skills, from repair to programming and web design to photography.

  Lafayette Charter High School
  113 Chaplin Drive
  Lafayette, LA 70508
  (337) 521-7000
  lafayettechoice.com/site26.php

Volunteers of America Juvenile Day Program and Alternative School

• The Volunteers of America Juvenile Day Program and Alternative School, sponsored by the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, Office of Youth Development, accepts students from 12 to 17 years old. In addition to academic skills, coursework covers social skills, independent living skills and a range of topics designed to help students become successful in life, as well as school. Students are in school from 7:45 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday and a half day on Saturday during their first month in the program. For younger students, the primary goal is successful return to a conventional school. Older students are encouraged to prepare for a high school equivalency examination.

  Volunteers of America Juvenile Day Program and Alternative School
  421 Carmel Drive
  Lafayette, LA 70501
  (337) 291-2578
  voa-br.org/Services/ChildrenYouthFamilies/JuvenileDayProgram/tabid/5928/Default.aspx