Sheridan AllPrep Academy

Sheridan AllPrep Academy is a K–12 alternative public school at 339 NW Sherman St in Sheridan, Oregon, a small Willamette Valley community, enrolling 356 students in Sheridan School District 48J. It is the largest of three K–12 alternative schools compared here, alongside Dallas Community Charter (251 students) and Perrydale School (319 students).

The school's clearest strengths are academics and attendance. On 2025–26 state tests it leads the comparison group in all three subjects — 56.3% proficient in English language arts, 44.7% in math, and 48.0% in science — clearing Oregon's averages by roughly 12, 12, and 17 points. The math gap with peers is especially wide: 44.7% versus 24.4% at Perrydale and 15.0% at Dallas Charter. Chronic absenteeism of 5.0% in 2024–25 is a sixth of the state's 33.5%, half of Dallas Charter's 10.0%, and less than a quarter of Perrydale's 22.7%. It does this while spending $4,994 per student, close to Dallas Charter's $4,836 and far below Perrydale's $20,570 — though Perrydale reports 47.34% free/reduced lunch eligibility while no such figure is available for Sheridan AllPrep, so the two student populations shouldn't be assumed comparable.

Two areas warrant attention. The graduation rate is the only measure where the school trails: 62.7% in 2024–25, below its district's 76.1% and the state's 83.0%, and down from 89.2% in 2022–23 — even as 11th-grade proficiency stays well above state levels. That divergence is worth asking the school about, since small graduating classes can swing percentages sharply. The student-teacher ratio also jumped to 24.0 from 15.7 a year earlier, the highest of the three schools. Grade-level results are mostly above district and state, with a localized 8th-grade dip (ELA 39.4%, just under the state's 41.5%); 5th-grade results are withheld by the state to protect privacy and should be read as unknown, not as a weakness.