Lake Charles College Prep is a tuition-free Type II public charter school educating students in grades 9-12 who reside in Calcasieu Parish.

As of 2018,[2] it was one of 42 Type II charter schools in the state of Louisiana, meaning it was authorized through an appeal process or via an "academic crisis bypass.

The 1997 act also allowed an “appeals-type” procedure under which an eligible group could submit its charter proposal directly to BESE if a local school board failed to approve it or if the local school board placed conditions on the approval of the charter which were unacceptable to the group.

[4] Lake Charles College Prep was formed under the governance of the Lake Charles Charter Academy Foundation, whose board consisted of retired Louisiana Third Circuit Court of Appeal Judge Ulysses Gene Thibodeaux[5] and retired Catholic priest Father Henry Mancuso.

[9] The Lake Charles College Prep Trailblazers compete in District 3-3A of the LHSAA.