Fort Wayne Virtual Academy

Located at 1200 S Clinton St, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Fort Wayne Virtual Academy is a modestly sized combined-grade school that serves 315 students (grades K through 12), run under Fort Wayne Community Schools. Compared to the state average of about 531 students per school, that is 41% below typical.

Within Fort Wayne Community Schools, which oversees 50 schools and 28,561 students, Fort Wayne Virtual Academy is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Fort Wayne Virtual Academy reports that the most-represented group is White (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 22% Black, 17% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 8% Asian. By comparison, Allen County as a whole is about 71% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Fort Wayne Virtual Academy reports 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 24.5:1, putting Fort Wayne Virtual Academy tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 55% of students at Fort Wayne Virtual Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Around the school, census data for Allen County shows median household income runs about $70,737, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Allen County runs 92 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,262 students), of which Fort Wayne Virtual Academy is one.

Nearest neighbor: Smith Academy for Excellence, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a city-core site. Fort Wayne Virtual Academy delivers learning online rather than in a traditional classroom setting.

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