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High Schools are graduating teens who can’t launch.
Not emotionally. Not practically. Not financially.
Not employable. Not adaptable.
Real Life Begins Here
While traditional schools prepare teenagers for tests, college applications, and more school, our students participate in life and work—now.
Colossal Academy Jacksonville was built to solve a problem we all see:
Teenagers are graduating without the practical, emotional, or financial readiness to launch.
They’ve earned grades—but not experience..
They’ve completed assignments—but not contributed to anything real.
Families feel it. Employers feel it. Communities feel it.
We knew young people were ready now. - They just needed a launchpad.
At Colossal, teenagers don’t wait for the real world. They enter it.
Our students don’t study entrepreneurship—they run businesses.
They don’t simulate careers—they apprentice, get certifications, and get paid.
This year alone, our students:
Intern as teachers;
Mentor younger students,
Serve as first mates preparing for their Captain’s license,
Film content for real clients,
Repair engines,
Tutor readers,
Invest real money, and
Build products that fund their school.
They are building work portfolios, gaining real client references, and maintaining professional relationships with business owners,
Teenagers who once hated school now wake up early to prep for charters, lead workshops, design products, teach art classes, and film ads for local businesses.
They don’t need to wait to contribute.
They already do.
We’re not graduating students.
We’re launching future-ready adults.
Colossal students leave with a diploma—but also a work record, certifications, recommendations, a portfolio, and a pathway - a seamless transition to adulthood, because they begin their next step in high school.
In a time when so many young people are struggling to launch,
ours are launching ahead—
confident, capable, purpose-driven, and already doing meaningful work.
We are reintroducing teenagers to the real world—
and reintroducing our community to what high school can be.












Colossal Academy Jacksonville is a proud recipient of a Vela Education Fund Microgrant. The Vela Education Fund is a philanthropic organization that provides grants to support innovative, non-traditional educational models. They empower education entrepreneurs, micro-schools, homeschooling communities, and other learner-centered initiati
Colossal Academy Jacksonville is a proud recipient of a Vela Education Fund Microgrant. The Vela Education Fund is a philanthropic organization that provides grants to support innovative, non-traditional educational models. They empower education entrepreneurs, micro-schools, homeschooling communities, and other learner-centered initiatives to create flexible, personalized learning opportunities for students.

Colossal Academy Jacksonville is happy to say that we are a approved Step-Up provider, as both private school and PEP.
We are considered to be a hybrid school - approved as a direct provider for the FES, UA and PEP scholarships.

Colossal Academy Jacksonville is an official Guy Harvey Conservation School.
We use the Guy Harvey curriculum for our Marine & Environmental Science Program and our teachers attend hands-on curriculum training at the GTM preserve 8 days a year.

Learn work launch is a nonprofit in Jacksonville Beach dedicated to supporting work based learning opportunities for teens.
They have chosen Colossal Academy as their first partnership supporting the fishing Captain program as well as the student teaching program.

Captain Wayne Senteno of Jax Fishing Charters (El Cazador) is leading our young anglers in their Fishing Captain Apprenticeship.
Captain Wayne is an avid angler with a lifelong passion for Florida waterways. He founded El Cazador Fishing Charters after years of mastering local waters - expertise he now shares with our Captains in Training.

Colossal Academy Jacksonville has chosen the Jacksonville Humane Society as our yearly community service project.
Colossal Academy Jacksonville has chosen the Jacksonville Humane Society as our yearly community service project.
Twice monthly, our students read to the cats and dogs in the shelter, helping to calm and socialize the animals, improving the quality of lives while they're in the shelter and making them more likely candidates to be adopted.
At the same time, our students have judgment, free, dedicated, reading time.
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