Valley Online Academy
Wenatchee · WA · Wenatchee School District · Public · K-12 combined
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Open Doors Re-Engagement → Entiat Middle and High School → Chelan School of Innovation → Chelan County Juvenile Detention Center → Westside High School → Columbia Basin Technical Skills Center → Wenatchee Valley Technical Skills Center → MLSD Open Doors Re-Engagement Program →📋 At a glance
- ✅ Gifted & talented program
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 14% of US high schools
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 4% by test-taker volume
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Valley Online Academy compares for families
What families should know about Valley Online Academy.
- ▸ LocallyWA sits right at the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math — local school quality will set your kid apart.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Open Doors Re-Engagement, Entiat Middle and High School, Chelan School of Innovation and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Bottom 4% by test-taker volume
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
🏛️ Federal Title I context
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥40% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Schoolwide program
40-74% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. The district can use Title I funds across the whole school under federal Schoolwide Program rules.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.
🏛️ Your state's public flagship
University of Washington-Seattle Campus
The in-state tuition gap is the flagship's biggest draw — most in-state families pay far less than the out-of-state sticker. Average net price after aid runs about $14,091/yr. Admission odds depend on your student's GPA and test scores, not which high school they attend.
Source: IPEDS admissions, tuition & enrollment + College Scorecard net price. Flagship = the state's primary public research university.
Chronic absenteeism
Why this matters to enrollment: Chronic absence is the most reliable early indicator that a student will leave a school — either by transferring out, dropping out, or matriculating to a charter or private alternative. At this level, today's absentees become next year's enrollment loss and the year-after's revenue loss.
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2024 total enrollment.
Counselor capacity
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020-2021. Counselor ratio = the school's most recent total enrollment ÷ counselor FTE. The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommends a 250:1 maximum; the US national median across schools with on-staff counselors is roughly 430:1.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -47.7%/year, projecting from 2024's 23 students:
A small or specialty program — naive trend math doesn't capture the school's full picture. Read the trend as directional, not predictive.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Most similar nearby high schools
The schools most like this one — same type, blended on distance and size — and where their enrollment is heading. These are the schools families here weigh against each other.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open Doors Re-Engagement Wenatchee |
Public | 1.9 | 91 | +54.2% |
| Entiat Middle and High School ENTIAT |
Public | 15.5 | 106 | +32.5% |
| Chelan School of Innovation Chelan |
Public | 30.6 | 50 | — |
| Chelan County Juvenile Detention Center WENATCHEE |
Public | 2.3 | 12 | — |
| Westside High School WENATCHEE |
Public | 1.3 | 279 | +11.2% |
| Columbia Basin Technical Skills Center Moses Lake |
Public | 55.5 | 53 | — |
| Wenatchee Valley Technical Skills Center WENATCHEE |
Public | 0.9 | 8 | — |
| MLSD Open Doors Re-Engagement Program Moses Lake |
Public | 55.3 | 67 | -71.5% |