201 N Greenway Ave
Boyce, VA 22620

I would suggest that parents find an other school to send their children to. Please, research online and ask other parents about their experiences at Boyce Elementary to get the real story. We regret putting our trust into Boyce Elementary with our young children, it took quite a long time undo what had been done.

My child has come home just about every day with some issue with a kid touching him inappropriately. Though the school wants to do right they would fair better in training teachers to observe more, control the classroom environment better, and set a zero tolerance standard for aggressive hands on behavior. Those teachers who are vigilant have no problems. It would be great to see this standard across the board. I am shocked at how vulgar and physical the kids are at the school. Bullying is a regular issue here. Another thing that really bothers me are the computer games they allow the students to play. Many involve weapons and shooting your opponent who can be fellow classmates. With all the school shootings I believe this is irresponsible and could set the school up for trouble down the road should anything ever happen. There is no school choice since this is the only school in the county. Something to think about if choosing this county.

As someone who went to this school and has seen it all, I wouldn’t recommend this school. In some classes there were super nice teachers such as the english teachers, science teachers and the math plus history/gov teachers. In others the teachers do not make it enjoyable and have shown clear signs of favoritism towards their students which peers have expressed. I’ve seen poc who’ve gotten longer disciplinary sentences involving fights or conflicts than students who are white which is awful of a double standard.Social and emotional support exists but not in more severe situations such as homophobia between students, racism, bullying AND mental health. This school has had situations involving racism that they try to cover up and teachers who claim these cases are “false/misinformation” involving staff when I’ve seen it and many other students have as well. The people who participate in this behavior get told simple things such as “don’t do that!” or “be nice!” when kids have been bullied, harassed or even attacked by peers for various things.I cannot speak much about the special education program here but I know a couple of friends who either have didn’t care for or loved it… I’d say it’s a good program since I have met nice peers who were in it. Although it depends with your own experience, I’d personally take precaution with involving your child in this school system as they do not look deeply into situations involving harassment.