Boys and girls take classes required by the State of Nebraska and the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. Girls and Boys Town's educational system provides academic opportunities as well as job and independent living skills. Students may take advanced placement courses or take advantage of our employment training courses. Girls and Boys Town also has a Reading Center that conducts applied research on literacy programs at Girls and Boys Town schools. In addition, Girls and Boys Town offers an extensive 4-H training program in farm field operations.
Youth learn livestock and agricultural training and greenhouse management.
Specific activities include everything from animal nutrition to honey bee management and farm machinery operation. Girls and Boys Town has school all year, including half-days during the summer months. Yes on both counts. Girls and Boys Town students still vote for the mayor. Ritha Moro, Girls and Boys Town's first black female mayor and the second female mayor in Girls and Boys Town's history was elected mayor for the 1996-97 school year.