VILONIA PATHWAYS ACADEMY

VILONIA PATHWAYS ACADEMY is an one-room-style high school in VILONIA, Arkansas, part of VILONIA SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school enrolls 69 students in grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 510 students per school, that is 86% smaller than typical.

VILONIA SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 2,963 students; VILONIA PATHWAYS ACADEMY is among them.

Demographically, VILONIA PATHWAYS ACADEMY records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%). Beyond that, the school reports 4% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 79% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school employs 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 8.8:1 average. Roughly 32% of students at VILONIA PATHWAYS ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below Faulkner County's rate of about 52%.

With demographic context factored in, VILONIA PATHWAYS ACADEMY falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 47.0%; this one comes in at 28.7%, -18.2 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, census data for Faulkner County shows median household income runs about $67,289, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Faulkner County's 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,977 students), VILONIA PATHWAYS ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

FRANK MITCHELL INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around VILONIA PATHWAYS ACADEMY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts VILONIA PATHWAYS ACADEMY at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 46.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area. VILONIA PATHWAYS ACADEMY is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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