Sunset Bay Academy is a long-term residential treatment and therapeutic boarding school in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. The school markets itself to families in the United States and says it serves boys and girls ages 12-17 with behavioral, emotional, academic, and family difficulties (Sunset Bay Academy).

The school describes its model as a structured residential program combining academics, therapy, counseling, community service, recreation, spiritual development, and life-skills training. Its current website lists an address on Del Rocio in Playas de Tijuana and presents the program as a faith-based, American-focused residential treatment center near San Diego (Sunset Bay Academy).

Advocacy sources identify the program as having opened in 2006 and describe a sequence of earlier names, including Seaside Academy, Pacific View Academy, and Oceanside Treatment Center, before the Sunset Bay Academy name. The r/troubledteens wiki also reports a past relationship with the World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools through seminar, marketing, or billing services; that claim is attributed to the advocacy compilation and a linked 2009 press-release source rather than to an official regulatory finding (r/troubledteens wiki).

Public criticism of Sunset Bay Academy has centered on survivor reports of coercive discipline, isolation, restraint, and sexual misconduct. Those allegations appear primarily in survivor and advocacy sources, and are not presented here as adjudicated findings (r/troubledteens wiki).