LASA's debate team competes in Policy Debate. The team is nationally ranked and has qualified a team to the Tournament of Champions every year since 2016. In 2017, LASA had their first team on the Coaches Poll and they finished the year ranked 14th. The same team made it to octofinals of the Tournament of Champions that year and won the Texas Forensic Association State Tournament. In the final 2018 coaches poll, LASA finished the year ranked 15th in the country. In the 2020-2021 school year, they were able to qualify 3 teams to the TOC for the first time. They are coached by Yao Yao Chen, a volunteer, who won the Kandi King Award for Coaching Excellence in 2021 from the Winston Churchill Classic Tournament.