DRIVEN VIRTUAL ACADEMY

DRIVEN VIRTUAL ACADEMY, a small unified-grade school in LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, overseen by PULASKI COUNTY SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, caters to 218 students, covering grades K through 12. That puts it 59% below the typical public school in Arkansas, which averages around 534 students.

Across the 26 schools in PULASKI COUNTY SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (12,586 students total), DRIVEN VIRTUAL ACADEMY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, DRIVEN VIRTUAL ACADEMY logs that 42% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest reads as 41% White, 8% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 2% Asian.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, DRIVEN VIRTUAL ACADEMY has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 7.9:1. The state averages about 8.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 40% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Pulaski County (around 71%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, DRIVEN VIRTUAL ACADEMY sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 44.1%; actual is 18.8%, a gap of -25.3 points.

In the surrounding community, Pulaski County reports that the typical household earns roughly $62,873 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Pulaski County runs 133 public schools (combined enrollment of about 64,124 students), of which DRIVEN VIRTUAL ACADEMY is one.

The closest other public school is JOE T. ROBINSON MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), DRIVEN VIRTUAL ACADEMY ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 42.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area. DRIVEN VIRTUAL ACADEMY operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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