Founded in 2011, Whetstone Academy is a CARF and Cognia (formally AdvancED) accredited therapeutic boarding school for young men. Tucked away in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains near the Chattooga River in South Carolina, our 57-acre campus boasts a lake for recreation and an active farm with many animals and birds. We proudly serve boys in grades five through nine at time of admission. As a therapeutic boarding school, our vision is to provide a safe and dynamic setting where young men can develop the needed tools to have effective skills and strategies for life by focusing on these four areas: -Behavioral -Academic -Social -Emotional