Wakanda Virtual Academy

Wakanda Virtual Academy operates as a compact primary school in MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, one of the schools within BEST ACADEMY. Current enrollment sits at 282 students spanning grades K through 8.

Across the 2 schools in BEST ACADEMY (790 students total), Wakanda Virtual Academy accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Wakanda Virtual Academy logs that 99% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 31.4:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 88% of students at Wakanda Virtual Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Hennepin County's rate of about 43%.

Across the wider county, Hennepin County reports that the typical household earns roughly $97,653 per year, roughly 54% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Hennepin County's 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), Wakanda Virtual Academy is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Best Academy, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Wakanda Virtual Academy.

Wakanda Virtual Academy operates from a metropolitan location. Wakanda Virtual Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model. Wakanda Virtual Academy delivers learning online rather than in a traditional classroom setting.

On allk12, the feed for Wakanda Virtual Academy typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.