A former teacher and coach is accused of having sex with a 16-year-old Alvarado student in his car outside the district’s administration building, Alvarado Police say.

According to police, Jared Young admitted to investigators to sexual misconduct. Police said he sent or exchanged nude and sexually explicit photographs through social media and texts with at least two Alvarado ISD students.

Young was a teacher and coach at Alvarado ISD during the 2023-2024 school year. When his contract was not renewed, he became a science teacher and freshman football and basketball coach at Legacy High School in Mansfield, where he had previously worked as a special education teacher’s aide.

“There’s no telling how many more students are going to come forward,” said Lt. Casey Lopez, with the Alvarado P

See Full Page