Mountain Youth School (MYS) was one of a very small group of alternative schools set up by the state of North Carolina for students that would benefit in an alternative classroom setting.

It is located in Murphy, North Carolina and serves grades 6–12.

Replaced in 2017, by The Oaks Academy, an Alternative school in Marble, North Carolina.

[1][2][3] In the summer of 1997, the North Carolina General Assembly set forth an allocation of more than $10,000 to establish the Mountain Youth Center.

[4] In 2005, Bill Gaither and several of the staff members set out an improvement plan to address the particular issues plaguing the school:[5] As of 2010,[citation needed] the school was predominantly non-Hispanic white (83.7%) with 4.7% of the student populace being non-Hispanic black.