Vigo Virtual School Academy

Vigo Virtual School Academy is an alternative public school in Terre Haute, Indiana, serving grades K–12 with 206 students as part of Vigo County School Corp, a district rated 1 star and ranked 270 of 374 schools statewide. Because there are no other schools within 20 miles, the useful comparisons are to the district and to Indiana as a whole — and by those measures this school sits well below average on most measures. The school's headline numbers show a school working hard but facing steep challenges. The graduation rate has climbed dramatically, from 18.7% in 2020–2021 to 75.0% in 2024–2025 — the best in the five-year window — yet it remains 8.9 points below the district (83.9%) and 14.7 points below the state (89.7%). Chronic absenteeism is the most striking concern: 54.4% of students were chronically absent in 2024–2025, roughly twice the district's 27.4% and more than three times the state's 16.7%. That rate has risen nearly every year since 12.8% in 2020–2021, which suggests a school-specific attendance and engagement issue rather than a district-wide one. Academic proficiency is also very low: in 2025–2026 ILEARN results, all-grade proficiency was 7.69% in ELA, 6.15% in math, and 3.7% in science, while 11th-grade SAT proficiency was 18.18% in reading/writing and 3.9% in math, far below district and state. Seventh grade was the relative bright spot at 14.29% in both ELA and math, though still below benchmarks, while 8th grade was weakest at 4.17% in both. Other factors parents may want to weigh: 51.46% of students qualified for free/reduced lunch in 2024–2025, up from 45.61%, even as per-student spending fell from $8,058 in 2021–2022 to $6,774 in 2023–2024, and the student-teacher ratio grew to about 20.5 from 17.6 the prior year. Biology end-of-course proficiency also fell to 13.51% while the district rose to 30.12%. Graduation gains are real, but with proficiency in the single digits and attendance this low, sustained improvement will likely depend on attendance and academic intervention.