{"id":6230,"date":"2025-05-21T14:59:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T18:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stridelearning.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=6230"},"modified":"2025-05-30T15:03:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T19:03:58","slug":"alabama-virtual-academy-graduates-a-record-number-of-students-as-growth-continues","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/stridelearning.com\/news\/alabama-virtual-academy-graduates-a-record-number-of-students-as-growth-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama Virtual Academy Graduates a Record Number of Students as Growth Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<section style=\"background-color: #FFFFFF;color:#2D2D2D;\" class=\"section custom-section position-relative  align wp-block-acf-section\" data-desktop-bg=\"\" data-mobile-bg=\"\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:15%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column has-link-color wp-elements-dc83049dca06c236896fb665b2d61bad is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:70%\">\n<p>The Alabama Virtual Academy graduated its largest class yet\u2014256 students\u2014during a May 15 ceremony in Montgomery. The online public school, serving grades 8\u201312 since 2015, has grown to around 7,000 students, gaining over 1,500 in the past year. Valedictorian Evan Willey earned both a high school diploma and an associate\u2019s degree, crediting the academy\u2019s flexibility. He plans to study engineering at the University of Alabama and finish in three years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.montgomeryadvertiser.com\/story\/news\/education\/2025\/05\/21\/alabama-virtual-academy-graduates-record-breaking-class\/83630396007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Read the full article on Montgomery Advertiser here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:15%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/section>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Alabama Virtual Academy graduated its largest class yet\u2014256 students\u2014during a May 15 ceremony in Montgomery. The online public school, serving grades 8\u201312 since 2015, has grown to around 7,000 students, gaining over 1,500 in the past year. Valedictorian Evan Willey earned both a high school diploma and an associate\u2019s degree, crediting the academy\u2019s flexibility. He plans to study engineering at the University of Alabama and finish in three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":6231,"template":"","news_category":[],"news_tag":[26],"news_keyword":[248],"news_state":[125],"class_list":["post-6230","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news_tag-k12-in-the-news","news_keyword-alva","news_state-alabama"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stridelearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/6230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stridelearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stridelearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stridelearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stridelearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stridelearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stridelearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=6230"},{"taxonomy":"news_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stridelearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_tag?post=6230"},{"taxonomy":"news_keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stridelearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_keyword?post=6230"},{"taxonomy":"news_state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stridelearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_state?post=6230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}