SOLVED. YA Science fiction, Dystopian: Boy protagonist goes to boarding school but isn’t allowed to leave ever. Girl (redhead?) gives initial tour of the school. Has a points system to buy rewards/ supplies. Spoilers. [s]

[Kyriaki]

At the beginning when he gets to the school, he gets toured by this one girl I think she was redhead and she shows him around. I think the administration of the school never actually shows themselves so it’s kinda just the students. There’s a kind of rigged points system for buying supplies. The main guy, maybe named ben or something? He discovers that some of the students are robots. And I think he finds out later that the school is converting them into robots. At the end he takes the girl that toured him cuz he liked her or soemthing and I think she ended up being a robot too and he ran away with her. He hid in a shed and they were hiding out so the administration didn’t kill them. I think there was a second book where they were also running away for a good chunk of it and trying to get out of the school grounds.

[Ann]

Possibly Variant by Robison Wells?

Goodreads summary:
Benson Fisher thought that a scholarship to Maxfield Academy would be the ticket out of his dead-end life.

He was wrong.

Now he’s trapped in a school that’s surrounded by a razor-wire fence. A school where video cameras monitor his every move. Where there are no adults. Where the kids have split into groups in order to survive.

Where breaking the rules equals death.

But when Benson stumbles upon the school’s real secret, he realizes that playing by the rules could spell a fate worse than death, and that escape—his only real hope for survival—may be impossible.

There is a sequel, so that matches your memory too.

[Kyriaki]

Yes, thank you so much!!! That’s it!

[Kris]

Glad you found your book, Kyriaki.

Variant (book 1) of the Variant series by Robison Wells - Ann's find.

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