Implementing school resource officer (SRO) programs has been a popular response to school-based violence in the United States (Lynch, 2017). Lynch further posits that there is a growing concern that school resource officers hyper-criminalize trivial student misbehavior, contribute to a culture of youth punishment and control, and are instrumental in facilitating a link between schools and the juvenile justice system. Thus, the school-to-prison (SPP) phenomenon emerged, placing students of color in the crosshairs of the very SROs commissioned initially to provide for their safety. Currently, there is much debate about the overall effectiveness of having SROs in public schools. Given this, there is a discussion about how public-school policing has contributed to incarcerating students of color. The purpose of this study was to examine if Saint James School (SJS) is disrupting the school-to-prison pipeline and, if so, what are the contributing factors, such as "Best Practices." Moreover, this study sought to determine if students who transfer to Saint James School (SJS) from historically low-performing and under-resourced public schools in Philadelphia show an overall decrease in encounters with the juvenile and criminal justice systems through high school and beyond. The findings indicated that the Saint James School model is disrupting the school-to-prison pipeline considering all the factors studied with participants who graduated between 2015 and 2018. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2222/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]