Youngstown Virtual Academy

Set in Youngstown, Ohio, Youngstown Virtual Academy is a micro-enrollment secondary school, operated by Youngstown City. It caters to 100 students across grades 6 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 82% smaller than the state mean of about 565.

Youngstown City comprises 14 schools with combined enrollment of 4,004 students; Youngstown Virtual Academy is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Youngstown Virtual Academy records that the largest single group is Black at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 22% White, 18% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 14% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 2 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 50.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.7:1 average.

In the area at large, census data for Mahoning County shows median household income runs about $56,942, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Across Mahoning County's 77 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,927 students), Youngstown Virtual Academy is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Wilson Alternative School, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Youngstown Virtual Academy.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area. As a virtual school, attendance and instruction happen remotely rather than in person.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.