(469) 302-7830·2550 Wilmeth Road, McKinney, TX 75071 A campus of McKinney Independent School District
Serenity High Recovery High School · McKinney, Texas

Prosper · Prosper ISD

A recovery high school for Prosper and Celina families.

Prosper ISD families have a public recovery high school roughly twenty minutes away in McKinney, where students in recovery from substance use disorder earn an accredited Texas diploma alongside daily recovery support.

Call (469) 302-7830 How enrollment works
From Prosper
about 20 minutes to campus
Eligibility
By qualification and approved district transfer — decided case by case
Grades
9–12 · ages 13–21
Diploma
Accredited Texas high school diploma
Campus
2550 Wilmeth Road, McKinney, TX 75071

Small town, same statistics

Prosper ISD does a great deal well. This is the one thing it cannot do.

Prosper has grown from a small-town district into one of the fastest-expanding in North Texas, and its newest high schools have filled almost as quickly as they opened. Rapid growth tends to outpace the specialized supports a family needs at exactly the wrong moment.

Families in Prosper and Celina sometimes assume the fentanyl and adolescent overdose numbers belong to somewhere else. They do not. Fentanyl-involved overdose deaths among adolescents rose 182 percent nationally between 2019 and 2021, and Collin County’s fast-growing northern communities are not exempt. What is different here is that the recovery infrastructure is thinner — which is precisely why a regional recovery high school matters.

Serenity High was built for that gap. It is a public recovery high school operated by McKinney ISD, opened in 1999, accredited by the Texas Education Agency, and small by design — a 10:1 student-to-teacher ratio on a campus where every single student is in recovery and every adult knows it.

Students from Prosper ISD are served as a partner district, subject to qualification and an approved transfer. Campus staff coordinate the transfer with your home campus, pull the transcript, and build a credit map before the first full day — so a family knows the realistic graduation date up front rather than discovering a missing half-credit in senior year.

Serving students from Prosper ISD campuses

Serenity High has drawn students from more than twenty-five sending high schools across North Texas. From Prosper, that has included students from campuses such as Prosper High School, Rock Hill High School, and Walnut Grove High School.

Families in Prosper and Celina often travel to McKinney or Plano for adolescent assessment and outpatient care already — Serenity sits along the same route.

What a Prosper student’s day looks like

Morning check-in before academics. Core instruction in a room of single-digit size. A credit-recovery block aimed at the specific semester treatment interrupted. Lunch at a sober table. An AA or NA meeting or a facilitated recovery group at midday. Afternoon academics or Collin College dual credit. Life-skills and relapse-prevention work before dismissal, and a handoff to the family about how the day actually went.

Friday closes with a weekend plan, because Friday afternoon is the hardest part of the week for a teenager in early recovery — and Monday’s check-in closes that loop.

More about student life Recovery support

Getting started from Prosper

Four steps, and the first one is a phone call

  1. Call the campus

    Describe where your student is — recovery status, treatment history, credits, what is happening at home. We will tell you honestly whether Serenity is the right next step or whether something clinical should come first.

  2. Visit with your student

    One family at a time. Your student sees the room, meets staff, and says in their own words what they want out of this.

  3. Transfer and credit mapping

    We coordinate with Prosper ISD on the transfer and records, then map exactly which credits are banked, partial, or missing.

  4. Start — mid-semester is normal

    Enrollment is rolling. Most families do not find a recovery high school in August; they find it three weeks after a discharge.

Prosper, Texas

Your student can finish high school without giving up their recovery.

Rolling enrollment for qualifying Prosper ISD students, including mid-semester. One phone call to find out where you stand.

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