Public school / High
Usd 457 Virtual Academy
Garden City, Kansas
- NCES ID
- 200639002158
- District
- Garden City
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Usd 457 Virtual Academy is a public high school in Garden City, Kansas, run by Garden City. It enrols 96 students — the 87625th largest of 1,365 public schools in Kansas.
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
96
Teachers
1.0
Students per teacher
96.0
Free or reduced-price lunch
3.1%
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.
Within Garden City
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.
- 1Garden City High School1,973 students
- 2Jennie Wilson Elem800 students
- 3Horace J. Good Middle School697 students
- 4Victor Ornelas Elem411 students
- 5Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Ctr404 students
- 6Kenneth Henderson Middle384 students
- 7Charles O Stones Intermediate Ctr343 students
- 8Abe Hubert Elementary School337 students
- Enrollment−70.0%
- Teachers−95.5%
- Students per teacher+600.7%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−93.6%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
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