GOAL Digital Academy

Set in Mansfield, Ohio, GOAL Digital Academy is an average-sized multi-level school, operated by GOAL Digital Academy. It works with 855 students across grades K through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 20% above the state mean of about 712.

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

On demographics, GOAL Digital Academy lists that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 7% Black, 7% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Richland County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 25.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

Across the wider county, census data for Richland County shows median household income runs about $59,509, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. GOAL Digital Academy is one of 49 public schools in Richland County (combined enrollment of about 18,772 students).

Lexington Pre-School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting. GOAL Digital Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model. As a virtual school, attendance and instruction happen remotely rather than in person.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 57%: 545 students in 2018 compared to 855 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share edged down from 15% to 7%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 26.1:1 in 2018 to 20.3:1 in 2025.

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