Juvenile Services

Brazos County Academy

The Brazos County Academy is an alternative educational environment for students under the supervision of the juvenile court who have not been successful in the traditional school setting.  The Academy’s goal is to provide a quality alternative educational setting for  youth that would  focus on discipline, behavior management and academic achievement.   The mission of the Academy is to enable students to perform at grade level. 
The Brazos County Academy accepts students in grades seven through twelve.    

The curriculum provided by the Brazos County Academy is governed by the American Preparatory Institute.  All credit courses are correlated to meet the standards of the TEKS- Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills as well as TAKS. 
 
At the Brazos County Academy students work at their own pace to progress individually through the modules of each course. Course credit is awarded upon the student's demonstration of 80 percent mastery of the  course. Grades are in the form of credits. No grades of A, B, C, or other are given.  Each module is based on performance objectives that specify the skills the student should have mastered upon completion of the module.  The curriculum has been designed so that a student could earn .5 credits within a six weeks grading period.  However, this will depend on the student.  All students receive a progress report at the end of each six weeks detailing their progress.

Students at the Academy become actively involved in various Life skills programs which include: presentations from the Brazos Valley Aids Center, a prevention/intervention program presented by the Brazos Valley Council on Alcohol and Substance Abuse, Skills Streaming, Anger Management , Eat Right/Live Right , Career Investigations , Worth the Wait(abstinence program), and a Group Rap sessions conducted weekly by a PHD Counseling Intern from Texas A&M University.  Students attending the Academy may also receive counseling from our licensed staff psychologist or counselor.  The students are also involved in Team Building and Character Building activities throughout the year.

Students enrolled at the Brazos County Academy are also able to give back to their community by providing community service.  Students may be involved in helping keep the Downtown Bryan area clean, trash pickup along Highway 21, Wellborn Road or  Martin Luther King Street.  Academy students are also annually involved in providing assistance during the Christmas season by sacking groceries during the Feed the Hungry Program in connection with various community organizations and churches.

The Brazos County Academy offers a one-day intervention/community service program to students of the Bryan and College Station Independent School districts for the purpose of intervening with those children referred for persistent misbehavior on school campuses and at school related events or for the offense of truancy.  Students referred to the Justice of the Peace Courts or Municipal Courts, based on a citation issued by a police officer, may be subject to being ordered to the  "Intervention Day" Program.  Youth may also be referred by their Juvenile Probation Officer.  This program  is designed to present students a regimented, disciplined, eight hour day of physical style drill and community service activities.  Prevent Day participants  provide  community service in conjunction with the Adopt-A-Highway Program, local churches, schools, and  Brazos Beautiful.