BOYSVILLE

BOYSVILLE is one of the very small 9-12 campuss in CONVERSE, Texas, run under UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS UNIVERSITY CHARTER SCHOOL, with 10 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so BOYSVILLE sits 99% smaller than that benchmark.

BOYSVILLE is one of 21 schools operated by UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS UNIVERSITY CHARTER SCHOOL, a district that works with 612 students overall.

In terms of who attends, BOYSVILLE shows that 70% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest looks like 20% White, 10% Black. By comparison, Bexar County as a whole is about 60% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, BOYSVILLE has 2 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 5.0:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Bexar County indicate the typical household earns roughly $72,341 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Bexar County runs 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), of which BOYSVILLE is one.

Nearest neighbor: JUDSON MIDDLE, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area. BOYSVILLE is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.