In 2021, teacher Angie Hammond from Methodist Children’s Home passed away and the students wanted to memorialize her in some way. Angie loved to go fishing and the students thought it would be appropriate to honor her memory with a bench that will be placed near a pond for people… read more 

UTUCS Pathfinders campus at the Burck Center for Youth in Driftwood is located on a working ranch that offers a variety of hands on learning opportunities for the boys in their care. One recent opportunity was for the students to compete in the Hays County Livestock Show. This season, nine… read more 

Every UT-UCS campus is unique offering our students a variety of activities outside of the classroom. In addition to their central campus in Waco, Methodist Children’s Home (MCH) has a working ranch outside of town. Their working ranch has a variety of livestock pens, an equine area and a stocked… read more 

In February 2022, students of our Methodist Children’s Home (MCH) campus in Waco toured McLennan Community College (MCC) as part of the OnRamps class. OnRamps is a state-wide initiative of UT Austin designed to expand access to postsecondary education by building partnerships with teachers, schools and postsecondary institutions across the… read more 

Principal Maricela De La Cruz, Ed.D. and the UT-UCS campus at Laurel Ridge Formative Years at High Point are excited to announce their first graduate! UT Charter School welcomed our Laurel Ridge Formative Years at High Point campus in 2015. Formative Years is a day treatment program at Laurel Ridge… read more 

It is common at this time of year for classrooms to have competitions on whose class can best decorate a room door. This year, Methodist Children’s Home kicked it up a notch by decorating their hallways! Following the theme of “Bulldog Holidays” MCH teachers and students competed for the grand… read more 

The Student Council at Methodist Children’s Home (MCH) conducted a canned food drive for the month of November leading up to Thanksgiving break. Each homeroom collected cans for about two and a half weeks and then on November 16th, the cans were counted.  Mrs. Patterson’s homeroom class collected 196 cans… read more 

To help UT University Charter School teens prepare for life after high school, our district recently hired Dr. Lucy Vélez as our College & Career Transition Coordinator. This new position will facilitate our district’s efforts to provide accessible postsecondary information for students, staff and parents. Lucy explained that the unique… read more