Program Staff
The staff of Texas ChalleNGe Academy are dedicated to helping youth set and achieve new and better goals for themselves and their families.
Core Components
The Texas ChalleNGe Academy (TCA) is a 22 week residential program that incorporates a highly structured quasi-military format emphasizing self discipline, personal responsibility, and positive motivation. Students, who are referred to as cadets while at the Academy, must meet military grooming standards, wear military type uniforms, and observe standard military customs and courtesies.
Each class involves a 3-phase program; Pre-Challenge, Challenge, and Post-Residential.
About Us
One of the major social challenges facing the nation today is the plight of teenagers who drop out of high school before graduation. Every day, over 5,000 students drop out of high school in this country - that amounts to more than one million dropouts every year. In May 2006, in a Time Magazine cover story, the editors deemed America a "Drop Out Nation."
