![]() ![]() Oklahoma Connections Academy posted the best graduation rate for a virtual charter school at 54.2 percent. The school is currently under investigation by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, which alleged Epic’s founders have embezzled state funds and falsified enrollment records to increase funding.Įpic has denied all allegations of wrongdoing.Īt Insight School of Oklahoma, a virtual school with nearly 600 students in seventh through 12th grade, the four-year graduation rate last year was 33.6 percent.Īt Oklahoma Virtual Charter Academy, the graduation rate was 47.6 percent. However, the school reports near perfect attendance among its students, a claim that has been challenged by other education officials who doubt its enrollment data. ![]() The school’s performance on math, English and science tests are also well below the state average. “It should cause those school districts and their sponsors to take a very fine-tuned focus to examining why the rate is so low.”Įpic One on One Charter School enrolled nearly 6,500 high school students last year, making it one of the largest high schools in the state. “It’s alarming,” Superintendent Joy Hofmeister told The Frontier. Leaders of Oklahoma’s growing virtual charter school system promote it as an option of last resort for thousands of students not adequately served in traditional school environments, and despite low overall academic performance, they claim students demonstrate significant growth and will eventually be prepared to graduate.īut low graduation rates bring into question the effectiveness of these computer-based public schools that now educate more than 25,000 students in nearly every community across the state. In fact, fewer than half of all students at three of the four virtual charter schools in Oklahoma graduated within six years, according to the same state data. In a state where the average graduation rate is 83 percent, just 40.2 percent of Epic’s students graduated on time last year, according to recently released school assessment data from the state Department of Education.Īccounting for fifth and sixth year graduates, Epic’s rate remains near 40 percent. “This is just the beginning of the next chapter of your lives,” David Chaney, superintendent and co-founder of Epic, told the students before yellow and blue balloons fell from the rafters, signifying the culmination of hard work that had ended in high school graduation.īut Epic’s graduation ceremony is an event not experienced by a majority of its students. DYLAN GOFORTH/The Frontierĭressed in blue robes with gold-colored stoles around their neck, graduates of Epic Virtual Charter School walked across the stage at the Mabee Center arena in Tulsa earlier this year, shaking hands with school officials as they were handed a high school diploma. Epic Charter School’s Tulsa offices at 3810 South 103rd East Avenue.
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