The Hoosier Academy, a 3-year-old charter school with campuses in Indianapolis and Muncie, is trying another fresh approach to education — focused on instruction tailored to each student.

The academy has both an entirely virtual school — taught through a computer audio-video link — and a virtual/in-class hybrid program.

The Virtual Pilot School serves 220 students from across the state in first through sixth grades. The Muncie-based hybrid program, K-8, has 150 students. And the Indianapolis campuses — one is K-8 and the other a high school — have about 625 students combined. The students in the hybrid program meet on campus two days a week and work from home three days a week.

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That said, any Indiana student can be considered for enrollment, she said.

Connections Academy has 18 public schools in 17 states.

The organization also has a nationally accredited private virtual school called National Connections Academy that serves students in states in which the virtual public-school option is not available, Laystrom said.

Indiana Connections Academy is the second virtual charter school in Indiana, said Lauren Auld, spokeswoman for the Indiana Department of Education.

Hoosier Academies, a combination virtual and bricks and mortar school that opened in 2008-09, was the first.

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