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Gateway Academy is a Christian, military-style boarding school for boys in Bonifay, Florida. Adult & Teen Challenge lists the program as a residential location for boys under 18 at 1213 Hope Circle and describes it as accredited within the Teen Challenge network.
Treatment and placement directories describe Gateway as a school for boys ages 11 to 17 that combines academic instruction, counseling, religious programming, and a highly structured campus environment. A Reddit-hosted advocacy page identifies the school by related names including Gateway Military Academy, Gateway Christian Military Academy, and West Florida Boys Ranch, and places its opening in 1998.
Gateway has been covered in reporting on Florida's religious residential homes for children. A 2013 Tampa Bay Times article reported that Samson Lehman, a 15-year-old student, was hospitalized in 2008 after being required to exercise at Gateway, with the article describing kidney failure and dialysis after the incident.