Intellectual Virtues Academy

Intellectual Virtues Academy is a public high school in Long Beach, California. Grades offered run from 9 through 12, with 118 students enrolled. For comparison, high schools in California average about 838 students.

The school's district is Intellectual Virtues Academy District.

At Intellectual Virtues Academy, Hispanic students make up 53% of the student body. It is also 22% Black, 8% White, 8% multiracial, and 5% Asian. Pick two students at random and there is a 63% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.

Its teaching staff equals 8.5 full-time positions, a ratio of 14.0:1. On average, high schools in California have 18.2:1, compared with 14.0:1 here. Around 68% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. That tracks the 70% average for public schools in Los Angeles County.

Intellectual Virtues Academy is located in Los Angeles County, where the median household income is $90,112, about 36% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. Besides Intellectual Virtues Academy, Los Angeles County has 2,243 other public schools.

We the People High is the nearest neighboring public school, less than a tenth of a mile away. The five-mile area around Intellectual Virtues Academy holds at least 8 other public schools.

Intellectual Virtues Academy falls in the City: Large locale category, used for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more. Intellectual Virtues Academy is a charter school, a type of public school that operates under a charter.

Intellectual Virtues Academy's enrollment climbed from 96 in 2020-21 to 118 in 2024-25. Students per teacher fell from 16.0 in 2020-21 to 14.0 in 2024-25.

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