Gary Virtual Academy

Gary Virtual Academy is a tiny all-grades campus in Gary, Indiana, overseen by Gary Community School Corp. The school works with 45 students in grades K through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 92% below the state mean of about 531.

Within Gary Community School Corp, which oversees 10 schools and 4,383 students, Gary Virtual Academy is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Gary Virtual Academy shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (87%). Beyond that, the school logs 7% multiracial, 4% White, 2% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 23% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Gary Virtual Academy reports 2 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 24.5:1 average. An estimated 62% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Lake County's rate of about 47%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Gary Virtual Academy sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 31.5%; actual is 1.2%, a gap of -30.3 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Lake County put median household earnings sit near $71,493, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Lake County runs 121 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,661 students), of which Gary Virtual Academy is one.

Henry S Evans Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Gary Virtual Academy ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 13.6%.

The school occupies a residential site.

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