Forney Virtual Academy

Size

Forney Virtual Academy is the 3rd largest of Forney ISD's 4 high schools; its 197 students are 1.1% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 4.6 miles away with a median enrollment of 2,094; Forney Virtual Academy is smaller than most of them.

NCES lists it as an alternative school: one that serves students whose needs a regular school may not meet, or that offers a non-traditional program alongside regular schools.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 12 with 95 students, and its smallest is grade 9 with 13, against an average of 49 per grade. This year grade 12 has 631% more students than grade 9 (95 against 13). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is White students: 58.4% here and 21.7% across Forney ISD. Hispanic students are next, at 18.8%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

22.8% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 48.5% across Forney ISD and a median of 63.8% for Texas high schools. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 10.45 full-time-equivalent teachers for 197 students, Forney Virtual Academy has 18.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 197 students would have about 14.1 teachers, so Forney Virtual Academy has 3.6 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas high schools (14).

Location

Forney Virtual Academy is in a town no more than 10 miles from an urbanized area, which NCES calls town, fringe. The nearest other high school is Basepoint Academy - Forney, 1.1 miles away in University of Texas University Charter School. Within 10 miles there are 15 other high schools, 4 of them within 5 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.