Baylor College of Medicine Academy at Ryan

On April 11, 2012 the HISD board voted to establish the school. The HISD board approved the conversion of the Ryan Middle School building into a magnet school. Jyoti Malhan was selected as the founding principal of the school. The goal was to have at least 100 6th grade students upon its opening. Malhan used her own cell phone to personally recruit students to BCM Ryan. The school received 450 applications even though it had not yet been established; the lottery admissions process selected 250 of them. 70 students from District IV, the feeder pattern for the former Ryan Middle School, applied to BCM Ryan for that school year. This included 22 from Whidby Elementary, including 19 from Blackshear Elementary, 14 from Lockhart Elementary, 9 from Codwell Elementary, 4 from Peck Elementary, and 1 from MacGregor Elementary. For its first year the school admitted 250 students. The HISD board voted unanimously for this change. ==Admissions==

BCMA at Ryan uses a lottery, instead of academic performance, as the basis for admissions. This is due to the federal grant for magnet schools used by BCMA at Ryan requiring this kind of admissions process. Therefore, incoming 6th graders have varying levels of academic abilities. Students zoned to Lockhart, Blackshear, and MacGregor elementary schools may attend BCMA at Ryan without going through the lottery. ==Demographics==

In 2015 the school had 480 students; 45% were Hispanic and Latino, 30% were black, and Anglo Whites and Asians made up the remainder. The elementary schools sending the largest numbers of students to BCM Ryan, as of that year, were Lockhart in the Third Ward and Roberts in Southgate, and 95 other elementary schools had students moving on to BCM Ryan. As of the 2013-2014 school year, 47% of the students were Hispanic and Latino, 35% were Black, 9% were White, and 9% were Asian. ==School uniforms==

BCM Academy at Ryan requires its students to wear school uniforms. Students are required to wear navy or burgundy shirts with the BCMA logo embroidered with khaki pants, shorts or skirts. Shorts and skirts must be knee length. Students are allowed to wear spirit shirts or college shirts with jeans. Students must wear belts and shirts must be tucked in. Hoodies are not permitted. ==References==