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Lakeland Girls Academy was a Christian residential school for teenage girls in Lakeland, Florida. A survivor-advocacy entry described the school as a Teen Challenge behavior-modification program for girls ages 12 to 17 that opened in 1958 (r/troubledteens wiki).

The school marketed itself to families seeking a Christian boarding environment for adolescents with behavioral, academic, emotional, or family difficulties. News coverage in March 2022 reported that the Lakeland school had closed after the death of Naomi Wood, a 17-year-old student who had been living at the school in 2020 (FOX 13 Tampa Bay).