Virtual Academy of Lafourche

The public school serving multiple grade levels Virtual Academy of Lafourche is located in Thibodaux, Louisiana. It is open to students in kindergarten through 12 and enrolls 477 students.

Virtual Academy of Lafourche is one of 30 schools in Lafourche Parish, which enrolls 13,326 students in total.

About 76% of the student body at Virtual Academy of Lafourche is White. Other students are 10% Black, 6% Native American, 5% multiracial, and 3% Hispanic. Lafourche Parish residents are about 75% White, a similar share. A diversity index of 40% means there is a 40% chance two randomly chosen students at Virtual Academy of Lafourche are from different groups.

The school has 0.3 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 1834.6 students per teacher. The average for combined schools in Louisiana is 52.1:1, so this school has more students per teacher. The school reported 58% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25.

Census data for Lafourche Parish show median household income comes to about $63,135, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 21%, and about 12% of people live in poverty. There are 32 public schools in the county, enrolling about 13,426, Virtual Academy of Lafourche among them.

Thibodaux Elementary School sits about 0.5 miles from Virtual Academy of Lafourche. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools.

The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Small, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000. The school is a charter school, funded with public money and operated under a charter agreement. NCES classifies the school as virtual.

Federal enrollment counts decreased from 494 (2020-21) to 477 (2024-25).

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