Voyager Academy

As a sizable combined-grade school in Durham, North Carolina, Voyager Academy works with 1,360 students from grades K through 12, run under Voyager Academy. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 731 students each, so Voyager Academy sits 86% above that benchmark.

Voyager Academy is the operating authority for Voyager Academy, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

On the student-mix side, Voyager Academy logs that 53% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 26% Black, 11% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Durham County as a whole is about 43% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 101 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 20% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Durham County runs at roughly 95%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, Durham County reports that median household earnings sit near $82,316, 55% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Durham County's 74 public schools (combined enrollment of about 46,109 students), Voyager Academy is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Excelsior Classical Academy, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in an urban setting. Voyager Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Voyager Academy has showed little movement, going from 1,348 students in 2018 to 1,360 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 62% to 53%.

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