Pro-Vision Academy, is a state-authorized charter school in the Sunnyside area of Houston, Texas.
As of 2009[update] it was the city's only school catering to students classified as at risk that was headed by a former National Football League player.
[3] Roynell Young established the institution in 1990;[1] initially it only admitted male students and was solely an after-school program.
[3] In 2013 Pro-Vision ended its HISD affiliation and became a charter school with direct oversight from the State of Texas.
[6] The Third Ward facility used prior to the Sunnyside site was in a one-story building at Cullen Boulevard and Balkin Street.
In a period prior to 1998 it occupied a retail space that previously held a video rental store.
[9] Paul Solotaroff stated in a 2009 article in Men's Journal that "nine out of 10 kids come in sorely behind in most subjects and drag along with them the kinds of chaos that KIPP and YES committees screen out.