Click below to learn more about each individual program that Lafayette Center offers school districts in Morgan, Cass, Brown, and Scott Counties through the Regional Office of Education #46 catchment area.
747 W. Lafayette St. ................Jacksonville, Il 62650
Phone: 217.243.8438 ......................Fax: 217.245.1409
This site is designed to provide students, faculty, staff and administrators with information about the Alternative Education Programs offered through the Regional Office of Education #46.
The entire staff of the Lafayette Academy and ARC programs look forward to serving you in the upcoming 2009-2010 school year!
Julie Sullivan - Director Lafayette Academy
Lafayette Academy Truancy Program (Lafayette Campus) 9th-12th grades
The Illinois Truants’ Alternative and Optional Educational Program is an Illinois State Board of Education grant-funded project administered by the Regional Office of Edcation #46 for students predominantly in Morgan County. The TAOEP program is designed to offer modified instruction or other services designed to prevent students from dropping out of school. The Lafayette Academy serves dropouts up to the age of 21 and potential dropouts, including truants, uninvolved, unmotivated, and disaffected students.
A.R.C. Regional Safe School (Jefferson Campus) 9th-12th grades
The A.R.C. is a Regional Safe School Program (RSSP) and serves expulsion-eligible or expelled (and then re-admitted for administrative transfer to RSSP) and suspension-eligible or suspended students in grades 6-12. Both a Jr. High School and a High School exist for these students. The ARC serves, on site at the Jefferson Community Center, four counties within the Regional Office’s jurisdiction. The statewide RSSP program began serving Illinois students in 1997 and is based upon PA 89-383 which provided for a system of alternative education programs for disruptive students.