POLK COUNTY VIRTUAL ACADEMY

As a tiny multi-level school in MENA, Arkansas, POLK COUNTY VIRTUAL ACADEMY instructs 12 students from grades 1 through 12, one of the schools within MENA SCHOOL DISTRICT. Enrollment runs roughly 98% smaller than the state mean of about 534.

MENA SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,703 students; POLK COUNTY VIRTUAL ACADEMY is among them.

On demographics, POLK COUNTY VIRTUAL ACADEMY lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%); the rest breaks down as 8% Hispanic. Compared to Polk County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 0.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 8.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 42% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Polk County's rate of about 74%.

Around the school, census data for Polk County shows the typical household earns roughly $49,191 per year, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Polk County's 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,063 students), POLK COUNTY VIRTUAL ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

MENA HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area. POLK COUNTY VIRTUAL ACADEMY operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools. As a virtual school, attendance and instruction happen remotely rather than in person.

On the community side, the feed for POLK COUNTY VIRTUAL ACADEMY typically covers enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.