Mountain Lake Academy is a therapeutic residential school in Lake Placid, New York. The school's official site describes it as a therapeutically driven educational community for vulnerable students, and its campus page describes a 100-acre campus on the outskirts of Lake Placid with dormitory housing, classrooms, recreation space, a gymnasium, and a high ropes course.

The National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs lists Mountain Lake Academy as a full member program and classifies it as both a therapeutic boarding school and a residential treatment center in Lake Placid. All Kinds of Therapy describes the school as serving male students in grades 7 to 12, ages 12 to 21, with emotional and learning difficulties (NATSAP, All Kinds of Therapy).