Through an array of Graduate Support Services programming, Academy Prep Center of Lakeland students continue to focus on reaching their high school and college academic goals. Using a unique educational approach, Academy Prep Centers ensure that alumni, many of whom are first-generation college students from historically marginalized communities, receive long-term guidance to help them succeed. The program provides consistent academic, social, and emotional supports alongside targeted financial aid for needs such as school visits, admissions, registration fees, textbooks, materials, and tutoring during the secondary years, and offers continued post-secondary engagement through periodic outreach, progress tracking, career counseling, and responsive connections to resources as needs arise. Prior to graduating from Academy Prep, students are matched with private preparatory, boarding, and advanced public high schools. Graduate Support monitors their progress throughout their high school and college enrollments.
Highlights of the Graduate Support Program
High school and college preparation courses and counseling to help students and families effectively transition to high school and post-secondary institutions; includes preparation for entrance testing, admissions, financial aid, course selection and study skills.
Consistent guidance in developing an education plan including continuous contact with graduates and their families. Immediate and personal intervention is provided for students with specific concerns.
Alumni network that expands opportunities, such as required community service and extracurricular involvement, pre-college summer camps and training opportunities, employment and internship referrals, and social gatherings and celebrations.
Preparation for the Future
Graduate Support helps develop educated adults, who in turn will have a positive social and economic impact on our communities. With Academy Prep’s academic training combined with life-skills preparation, its graduates are equipped to fulfill their adult roles as community leaders.
