The AAA Academy is a not-for-profit 14-7.02 private therapeutic day school.  It has been approved by the Illinois State Board of Education to serve the needs of students ages 5 through 15 with emotional, behavioral, and learning disabilities, other health impairment as well as those considered to be at-risk (Expulsions & Suspensions). 

AAA Academy provides a structured academic program for placement of students in grades K through 8, utilizing a unique 5-1 pupil to teacher ratio.  AAA Academy’s concept of reducing class size goes along with a belief that to communicate one-on-one with students increases the chance of reaching them.

AAA Academy was created with the idea and principle belief that “ALL CHILDREN ARE WORTH SAVING.”  This belief allows us to provide alternative placements to students with different needs while allowing them to obtain needed academic achievement. Students experiencing difficulty in the traditional school environment are placed with AAA Academy because of our fundamental belief that all children can learn. 

AAA Academy is cognizant of the huge number of students in need of alternative placement and support the theory that “it often takes different roads to arrive at our specific goals.” Our primary focus is to have students make academic achievements within a disciplined environment.  Therefore, we provide a structured academic program and a disciplined social environment, while simultaneously nurturing our students. 

AAA Academy provides both individual and group instruction to those students to help them develop the following competencies:

• A strong self-concept
• Basic social skills
• Management of emotions and interpersonal skills
• Develop and excel in academic skills.

Students attend school from 8:30 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, and receive four to five periods of academics, lunch, recreation, group discussion, and/or consultations. The services we provide include social work, psychology, and education in a non-traditional environment.