Welcome to Mountain Lake Academy

Improving the lives of behaviorally challenged adolescent males.

Nestled in the Adirondack Mountains of Lake Placid, New York, Mountain Lake Children’s Residence, Inc. and the Mountain Lake Academy offer exceptional educational and treatment programs tailored to support the typical development of adolescent males, ages 12-21. Students come to us with a history of significant failures in school and at home, including school truancy, curfew violations, alcohol and substance abuse, anger management problems, and difficulty in relationships with parents and other authority figures.

Here at Mountain Lake, we do whatever it takes to help these young men turn their lives around. Through individualized educational, residential, adventured-based and therapeutic programs, the professional educators, clinicians and residential counselors at Mountain Lake work with students to foster better lifestyle choices, academic achievement, character building and higher self-esteem. Graduates of our program have gone on to lead more fulfilling and self directed lives.

Established in 1999, and certified by the New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Mountain Lake Children’s Residence, Inc., including the educational component of Mountain Lake Academy, is a non profit organization dedicated to helping behaviorally challenged adolescent males, ages 12 to 21. Students are typically referred to our residential treatment program by departments of social service, probation and committees on special education. The services offered by Mountain Lake include:

• 24-hour supervision in structured program
  emphasizing growth through relationship building
• A student to staff ratio of 6:1
• Middle and High School programs certified by the
  New York State Department of Education
• A Culinary Arts program that prepares youth for employment
• Adventure-based therapy
• High and low ropes challenge course
• Full-sized indoor gymnasium
• Psychiatric services and comprehensive
  medical monitoring
• Family Therapy
• Substance abuse services provided through
  St. Joseph's Addiction, Treatment and Recovery Centers