West Virginia Virtual Academy

West Virginia Virtual Academy is a high-enrollment combined-grade school with an address in Charleston, West Virginia. The grade span is kindergarten through 12, and enrollment is 1,654 students. An average school in this group (combined schools in West Virginia) has about 212 students.

In federal data, the district for West Virginia Virtual Academy is the school itself.

At West Virginia Virtual Academy, White students make up 85% of the student body. The school is also 7% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, and 4% Black. That is close to the 86% White share among all Kanawha County residents. The chance that two students picked at random at West Virginia Virtual Academy belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 26%.

Within Kanawha County, median household income is about $60,943, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 30% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 12%. Federal data list 70 public schools in Kanawha County, with a combined enrollment of about 25,173.

Kanawha City Elementary School is located about 0.1 miles from West Virginia Virtual Academy. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools.

Locale data from NCES put West Virginia Virtual Academy inside a principal city with a population under 100,000 (City: Small). It is a charter school, open to the public and funded by taxpayers. The school's NCES record marks it as virtual.

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