Scappoose Online Academy

Scappoose Online Academy is a K–12 virtual school serving about 50 students in the Scappoose School District 1J, located at 33589 High School Way in Scappoose, Oregon, on the Portland metro periphery alongside a cluster of similar online academies.

Academically, Scappoose Online Academy posts the strongest test proficiency in its comparison group in all three subjects. In 2025–26, 66.7% of students met standards in English language arts, 49.2% in math, and 57.8% in science — well above the Scappoose School District 1J rates of 51.4%, 39.6%, and 41.3%, and the state rates of 43.8%, 32.9%, and 30.6%. It also outscored nearby online options, including Metropolitan Learning Center (55.5% in ELA), FLEX Online School (51.9%), and Hillsboro Online Academy (49.7%); test data for St. Helens Virtual Academy is suppressed by the state. These results come at the lowest per-student spending in the group: $5,153 in 2024–25, versus an average of about $18,628 across the four peer schools.

The graduation picture is different. Scappoose Online Academy's 69.2% graduation rate sits 24.2 points below its own district (93.4%) and 13.8 points below the state (83.0%), though it is higher than FLEX Online School's 61.0%. Chronic absenteeism has swung sharply — 41.7% in 2021–22, 10.3% in 2022–23, and 40.5% in 2023–24 — and the most recent year's figure is suppressed. With roughly 50 students K–12, a single student can shift a rate by several points, so figures such as the reported 125:1 student-teacher ratio in 2024–25 are best read as data artifacts of a tiny program rather than a description of classroom conditions. Grade-level results show real strengths in science (57.9% in 5th grade and 57.6% in 8th grade) and 7th-grade ELA (81.8%), with 6th-grade ELA (35.3%) the one clear weak spot.