Intellectual Virtues Academy

Set in Long Beach, California, Intellectual Virtues Academy is a rural-scale secondary school, run under Intellectual Virtues Academy District. It hosts 118 students across grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 86% below the state mean of about 838.

Operationally, Intellectual Virtues Academy answers to Intellectual Virtues Academy District, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

In terms of who attends, Intellectual Virtues Academy reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 22% Black, 8% White, 8% multiracial, 5% Asian.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.0:1. The state averages around 18.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 68% of students at Intellectual Virtues Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Intellectual Virtues Academy is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

We the People High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies a metropolitan site. Intellectual Virtues 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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