ARISE Virtual Academy

ARISE Virtual Academy is a small school serving multiple grade levels in Janesville, Wisconsin, that operates as a charter school. It teaches 119 students in kindergarten through 12. By comparison, combined schools in Wisconsin enroll about 272 students on average.

ARISE Virtual Academy is one of 22 schools in Janesville School District, which enrolls 9,355 students in total.

Of every 100 students at ARISE Virtual Academy, about 73 are White. Beyond that, enrollment is 18% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, and 4% Black. The White share of the county population is higher, at 82%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, ARISE Virtual Academy scores 43%.

Staffing at ARISE Virtual Academy comes to 10.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 11.1:1. The school's 11.1:1 compares with an average of 25.6:1 for combined schools in Wisconsin. On the income side, 46% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Rock County average a similar 47%.

In Rock County, home to about 164,350 people, median household income comes to about $75,673, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 26%, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. There are 65 public schools in the county, enrolling about 25,542, ARISE Virtual Academy among them.

ARISE Virtual Academy's nearest public school is Franklin Middle (less than a tenth of a mile). The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8.

Federal data place ARISE Virtual Academy in the City: Small locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000. ARISE Virtual Academy operates as a charter school, which is publicly funded and run under a charter. NCES lists ARISE Virtual Academy as a virtual school.

ARISE Virtual Academy reported 734 students in 2020-21 and 119 in 2024-25. Changes that large sometimes follow a school adding or dropping grades, so the two figures may not cover the same grades. The ratio of students to teachers went from 9.1:1 to 11.1:1 over the same years.

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