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Public school / Other

Houston County Virtual Academy

Newton, Alabama

NCES ID
010177002506
District
Houston County
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Houston County Virtual Academy is a public other school in Newton, Alabama, run by Houston County. It enrols 239 students — the 73601st largest of 1,528 public schools in Alabama.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

239students

73601st nationally, tied with 132

Teachers

9.0FTE

84650th nationally, tied with 1,296

Students per teacher

26.6students

91246th nationally, tied with 70

Free or reduced-price lunch

67.8%percent

32963rd nationally, tied with 107

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

Free or reduced-price lunch

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.

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Within Houston County

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Rehobeth Elementary School1,174 students
  2. 2Rehobeth High School788 students
  3. 3Rehobeth Middle School626 students
  4. 4Ashford Elementary School625 students
  5. 5Wicksburg Elementary School606 students
  6. 6Cottonwood Elementary School481 students
  7. 7Wicksburg High School471 students
  8. 8Webb Elementary School461 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Alabama median across 1,528 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−53.2%
  • Teachers−66.7%
  • Students per teacher+50.3%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+3.0%
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Where this sits

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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.