He started high school in a new area, so he didn't have any friends going in. He has attached to a friend group that seems okay. He's only known them for a few months, so it's a bit of an open question still. The friends he's made are from football. I wish he had fallen in more with the "smart kids" group, but that hasn't happened and I don't know how to make it happen. He has friends from seminary, but they aren't who he hangs with at school.
There aren't any bad influences in the neighborhood and we are a stable family.