South Bend Virtual School
South Bend · IN · South Bend Community School Corp · Public · K-12 combined
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Rise Up Academy at Eggleston → St Joseph High School → Trinity School At Greenlawn → Adams High School → Purdue Polytechnic High School South Bend → Depaul Academy → Studebaker Center → Riley High School →📋 At a glance
- 📚 1 AP courses offered — Moderate
- ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- ✅ Gifted & talented program
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 44% of US high schools
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 1% by test-taker volume
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How South Bend Virtual School compares for families
Solid mid-tier academic profile.
- ▸ LocallyIN students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+8 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Rise Up Academy at Eggleston, St Joseph High School, Trinity School At Greenlawn and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Moderate — some AP / advanced course access
Bottom 44% of US high schools
✅ Gifted/talented program
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).
SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Bottom 1% by test-taker volume
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
🏛️ Federal Title I context
Mixed-income school
Below Title I eligibility threshold (FRPL < 35%)
25-34% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. Below the federal Title I threshold but a meaningful share of the population is income-eligible for free lunch.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.
Chronic absenteeism
Why this matters to enrollment: Chronic absence is the strongest early indicator of dropout, transfer-out, and family disengagement. A school's absenteeism trend forecasts its enrollment trend 1-3 years out. For school leaders: an Enrollment Trend Audit traces this dynamic forward →
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2024 total enrollment.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -11.2%/year, projecting from 2024's 291 students:
≈ 130 fewer students by 2029 — a real revenue/relevance risk worth getting ahead of.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue at risk
At $14,093 per student in district revenue, the 130 students projected to be lost by 2029 represent ≈ $1,832,090/year in funding at risk.
District total revenue ÷ enrollment, NCES F-33. Public funding largely follows enrollment, so a shrinking class is a recurring budget hit.
Nearby high schools — the local competition
The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rise Up Academy at Eggleston South Bend |
Public | 0.0 | 149 | -11.3% |
| St Joseph High School South Bend |
Private | 0.4 | 806 | -8.7% |
| Trinity School At Greenlawn South Bend |
Private | 0.9 | 227 | +7.1% |
| Adams High School South Bend |
Public | 1.4 | 1,966 | +2.6% |
| Purdue Polytechnic High School South Bend South Bend |
Public · charter | 1.6 | 138 | +48.4% |
| Depaul Academy South Bend |
Private | 1.7 | 23 | — |
| Studebaker Center South Bend |
Public | 2.0 | 1 | — |
| Riley High School South Bend |
Public | 2.2 | 1,238 | +20.2% |