West Virginia Virtual Academy

West Virginia Virtual Academy, a sizable combined-grade school in Charleston, West Virginia, overseen by West Virginia Virtual Academy, serves 1,654 students, covering grades K through 12. That puts it 680% larger than the typical public school in West Virginia, which averages around 212 students.

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

Looking at the student body, West Virginia Virtual Academy records that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 7% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 4% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Kanawha County as a whole.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Kanawha County indicate the typical household earns roughly $60,943 per year, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across Kanawha County's 70 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,173 students), West Virginia Virtual Academy is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Kanawha City Elementary School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around West Virginia Virtual Academy.

The campus sits in a downtown setting. West Virginia Virtual Academy operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools. West Virginia Virtual Academy delivers learning online rather than in a traditional classroom setting.

On this page, members of the West Virginia Virtual Academy community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.