The Grande Innovation Academy

The The Grande Innovation Academy area has one school, The Grande Innovation, an elementary school serving grades K–8 with 833 students. Its all-grades 2025–26 results were close to state levels in ELA (40% proficient versus 41%) and somewhat lower in math (29% versus 33%). The most important pattern for families is the sharp 4th-grade weakness alongside stronger results in selected upper grades.

Because it is the only school in the area, The Grande Innovation is both the highest- and lowest-ranked school locally; that does not show how it compares with other schools. Its clearest grade-level strengths are 7th-grade ELA, where 55% were proficient versus 43% statewide, and 8th-grade math, at 36% versus 30%. The largest gaps were in 4th grade: ELA was 33% versus 47% statewide, and math was 23% versus 40%. Science results also varied by grade: 5th-grade science was 27% versus 34% statewide, while 8th-grade science was 45% versus 30%—the largest positive state comparison among the reported results.

SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking improved from 718th of 912 schools, at the 21st percentile and one star in 2023–24, to 560th of 900, at the 38th percentile and two stars in 2025–26; the rank number improved by 158 places, but changing ranking pools and the lack of multiple years of comparable test scores mean this does not establish that proficiency rose. Across grades 3–8, the simple grade averages were about 1 point below the state in ELA and 5 points below in math, reinforcing math as the larger overall area to watch despite the 8th-grade strength. The reported 2024–25 student-teacher ratio is 21.3, and no free/reduced-lunch rate is listed.