As a student here, I personally dislike it due to the fact it really only cares about football,…read morehence band and cheerleading because they're associated with football games. Sure this school has a history with footballs wins, but it doesn't mean neglecting your other clubs and activities. Sometimes they set aside class time to attend an awarding ceremony in the gym to congratulate football players that are graduating or getting money, and it always last for about an hour. This year they started using AI to make posters instead of just consulting the art teacher to request assignments associated with school spirit, they're already neglecting their art program anyways, which I'lll get to later. I told a teacher that I didn't like the use of AI for a yellow bear in a football shirt with muscles in the classic big top build and short legs next to a hip hop studio station looking things, and said teacher told me "Why don't you just go to a different school?". Look, I didn't even want to go to this school and it's not like I can leave, but you shouldn't tell a student, especially a P-TECH student to leave this school because they don't like the staff using AI to make school posters when school spirit has and should always be human-made and expressed. On top of back, back to the neglected art topic, if I'm not mistaken SOC is paired up with Mountain View which I believe is a college very passionate with art. I had a tour of which I hope was the same school, and they had a whole hallway to show case art, a pottery room, there was even an Alice In Wonderland theater going on that friday. It's ironic that SOC is using AI imaging, one of the top things fighting artists, while being allegedly paired with an art college, not to mention this college is the reason the P-TECH program is relatively there and functioning in SOC. On top of that, the P-TECH majors there at the time I'm writing this is Personal Computering, Electrical Technology, Kinesiology(for some reason, no shame to it it's just a little absurd to me), and one related to piloting. Notice how there isn't an Art related major? I initially figured majors were a difficult process to have when being a P-TECH high school so I asked a P-TECH counselors why despite being paired with a college that has a passionate art reputation, we have no art majors, she gave me an explanation I understood, but ove explained it a lot that I didn't understand anymore. I told why I didn't understand, and she just told me she overexplained to make sure the ones she's talking to understands, which also didn't make sense to me because she didn't really try to undermine her overexplaining, and the conversation was going on much longer than I expected it to, mostly due to the overexplaining. This school also caused me a lot of stress socially wise. The work there is fine, it's just the classmates and other students I had along with a good chunk of the teachers that made me want to rebel my reputation of a being the obedient, gifted, over-achieving kid. I feel it now despite it only being a month in this school year as a Sophomore. Also, same teacher that told me to go to a different school, she does this thing where she has podiums for different class periods and she has growth goals. I understand that the growth goals aren't of her control, which is why I'm more commenting on the district right now but she's still in relevance. Nevertheless, I don't think a competitive circumstance will help kids do better performance wise. Sure, some poeple get that overzealous thrill, but many other people would feel pressured and may not do their best as a result, or others might shut down entirely. Just saying, people experience expectations very differently, and I find that her classroom system, which is common but she mentions the podium stuff more often than any teacher I had, isn't a 100% guaranteed boost one-size-fits-all. In addition to growth goals, I don't find them very helpful either. Sure, they just be there to help students know what grades are considered an improvement, but the same teacher tells us that we should always be performing above our growth goal. Take, for example, my growth goal, which is a 94. If you think about it, that menas I can only miss one or no questions on every assignment, maybe two questions if I'm lucky, and that isn't healthy. No kid should be expected to perform almost perfect grades on every classwork given to them just because of a score. No human, especially teenagers and children, are robots. We can't ingrave mistakes in our memories and smoothly answer questions and meet high standards. Humans are flawed creatures and realistically make mistakes, but that doesn't make you stupid or intelligent, let alone unfit for a progam like P-TECH, it just makes you imperfect, and the concept of perfect is already an impossible standard, so don't make someone obsess over it because its only gonna cause burn-out and low self-esteem. If only this school acknowledged that

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I know several young people that have attended that school and they only speak good about it…read more They are the only school in the United States of America, who has a gold medalist on the girls team and the boys team of basketball. Meaning they have both won a world championship in their sport for their age group. They have great purpose and many successful programs.

Love the school, but staff sucks !!! Especially the security manager he give you the most nasty…read moreattitude ever.

I love that I'm both entering this school into the Yelp Dallas database and reviewing it first. As…read morea college employee, I went for a tour of this school and fell in love with the place. First, don't let the name fool you. It's not a school for black students, only. I was pleased to see that there are black, Hispanic, and white students at this school. The principal is genuinely excited about the opportunity he has to lead these boys and he gets even more excited when visitors arrive. He allowed me and my colleague to visit as many classrooms as we wanted and something really neat happened. In every class, a student would come to us and give us a personal greeting along with a brief description of what they were learning in class. How about this? One of the students in the Mandarin Chinese class, greeted us in the language! I met the physical education teacher who is actually engaged in teaching the students...physical education. He's not some old guy who stands over the students while they do push-ups nor is he a babysitter. The teacher actually spoke to us about his methods for evaluating the physical state of his boys. FYI, this is not a private school. It is a public school that has high standards for its students. I can't say enough about how great this place seems to be, and I'll make an effort to attend any events they hold.

I do not even know where to begin with this school! As an educator, I have been in many schools…read morewhich claimed to be college prep but were nowhere near that. BOMLA is what all of those schools strive to be. Young men truly engaged in their classes. I was able to observe a robotics class, a flipped band class, a Socratic seminar where young men discussed a variance of religions. School and admin are dedicated and focused on building the characters of the pupils and that is truly wonderful to see. It was such a great experience, and I encourage any young man in the Dallas area to seek admissions. A public school with a private school experience.

If you're looking for a great school for your kids - this is the one! We enrolled our kids here…read moreafter a not so great start in the public schools and the transformation in my kids has been phenomenal! They actually like school now, they love their teachers, they love that they are challenged, they love that the learning environment is not the public school standard! I would recommend this school to everyone! It's the best!

Grades: Prekindergarten-12 Students: 920 students…read moreStudent:Teacher Ratio: 19:1 Minority Enrollment: 72% Overall School Rank: Bottom 50% in TX Math Proficiency: 22% (Btm 50%) Reading Proficiency: 37% (Btm 50% The school is not a good school for you child to attend. The principal Mrs. Mays hold person grudges against your child and she is not very friendly. This schools densest have enough teachers to meet the needs of their students. They claim they work with students to make them successful but that is not true. Mrs. Mays should be fired because she likes compassion or concern for her students. She say that she is a mom but I guess her compassion is only for her kids. She is very disconnected from her feelings when is comes to others. She told me to just give up on my son. But his frustration was because they fired several of his teachers without provided him with another teacher. The learning environment is not a stable one. ***DONT ENROLL YOUR KIDS HERE PLEASE****

When was the last time you were in a High School Auditorium? Before this event, it was over 3…read moredecades for me. The memory I had was of lacquered formed plywood seats, sweaty smelling air, stained concrete floors with horrible sound systems. This high school was not those I remember! Easy to find on the campus and near plenty of parking! HUGE auditorium with carpeted floors, padded seats that were comfortable to sit on for 8 hours, CLEAN air and a professional modern sound system that interacted easily with a laptop. The hallways were clean, spacious, and very well maintained! The restrooms were spacious and exceptionally clean! Duncanville, thank you for allowing the use of this fine facility for the workshop!

I, Lyndan McInnis, 143728, attend school at 900 W Camp Wisdom Rd, Duncanville, TX 75116. I wanted…read moreto start off by saying that I don't care if this puts a bad image on the school; I don't care if I go to OSS or ISS; some kids may be scared to say it, but I don't care. That said, this school feels like a PRISON. The STAFF are rude and are DICTATORS and HYPOCRITES, and the STAFF doesn't care about the students until something happens to the students or teachers. When the first day of school started, they had this big pep rally, and most of the staff who were there who are rude act like they are wholesome when really they are hypocrites and liars because they were bragging about us getting new computers, and come time to get the computers, they were old, broken, missing keys, nasty liquids, damaged screens, and buttons didn't work, which is funny. Also in the mornings almost everyday kids are late because of these phone pouches and them turning away kids from the building so it makes kids late which they got to get tardy which doesn't make since because its the school fault and which is why it takes one of the parts why they attendants scores are low and they are teaching us on a middle school level when we are in high which means lack of understanding to the students of DUNCANVILLE HIGH but I guess that's wrong . The ONLY good part about this school is the students and some of the teachers; they make it worth going to every day. I do not recommend going to DUNCANVILLE unless you wanna have a free experience of prison with middle school education.