Back to School 2025: Geneva starts Monday

Geneva School of Boerne back Monday for 26th year

While Geneva School of Boerne students return to campus Monday, the school has been far from dormant this summer.

Faculty returned Aug. 4, according to Head Of School Leslie Mueller. Athletics began several weeks ago, with football and volleyball schedules already under way. And incoming students attend camps throughout the summer, to help them acclimate.

“We’ve got strong high school and middle school classes, and a rising ninth grade class,” Mueller said of Geneva’s 26th year of offering classical Christian education.

Student count is expected to hit around the 655 mark, she said. A couple grade levels are maxed out, with 62 fifth graders and 68 eighth graders. A maximum class size covers about 60, she said.

Students and parents will find a new Logic School (grades 6-8) headmaster in Erin Lutz, who has served as the upper grammar/secondary school principal for the past several years at Trinity Christian School, a K-12 Christian school in Kailua, Hawaii.

Other than Lutz’s arrival, Mueller said the Geneva faculty returns basically intact.

“We have a very high teacher retention rate, with very few new teachers,” she said. “To see them come back, they all know each other. It’s fun to have them back.

“Being in the same place for a number of years, they continue that relationship,” she said. “All of that can work well, (offering) the same atmosphere, the same priorities, a deep and formative education.”

Geneva is a private KP-12 classical and Christian school. “We teach students to lead as servants, scholars, athletes and artists,” the school’s website states.

“We focus on our end goal first and our graduates are equipped with a biblical worldview and are critical, logical thinkers who are able to discern truth, beauty and goodness,” it continues.

Student takes three years of logic, formal and informal. “We teach formal rhetoric. Students are required to complete a senior thesis in order to graduate,” she said.

Between 30% and 40% of the school’s senior class started their educational journey as kindergarteners at Geneva.

“We get the joy — we’ve really got a great job, seeing them mature,” she said.