Summary
Innovations Academy is an alternative K–12 school in The Dalles, OR, serving 232 students as part of North Wasco County School District 21, a district ranked 119th of 141 in Oregon with a 1-star rating. The only nearby school in the data is Dufur School, another alternative K–12 school about 12.75 miles away in Dufur, OR, with 352 students in Dufur School District 29. Because there is only one comparison school and both serve alternative K–12 populations, comparisons are directional rather than exact. Values suppressed by the state are unknown, not zero.
Graduation is improving quickly but still lags. Innovations rose from 14.8% in 2020–2021 to 63.8% in 2024–2025, a 49-point gain, yet remained 18.7 points below the district and 19.2 points below the state, and 25.5 points below Dufur's 89.3%. Chronic absenteeism is the clearest concern: 72.8% of students were chronically absent in 2024–2025, versus 39.5% in the district, 33.5% statewide, and 32.0% at Dufur — roughly double the state and Dufur. It has stayed at that high level for two years, so it is not a one-year anomaly.
Academically, all-grade ELA, math, and science all beat the district (math 29.5% vs. 19.0%; ELA 38.3% vs. 30.5%; science 21.6% vs. 20.6%) but fall below state averages. Math is a relative strength — 11th-grade math, at 25.6%, is above the district, the state, and Dufur — while science and 11th-grade ELA are weaker. Innovations spends $5,434 per student versus Dufur's $29,929, about 5.5 times more, though student–teacher ratios are similar (16.5 vs. 17.1). Its free/reduced-lunch rate dropped from 86.63% to 47.41% over two years, now below Dufur's 66.19%. Many 5th-, 7th-, and 8th-grade results are suppressed, so those remain unknown rather than poor.
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