At $15,632 per pupil, Innovation Academy West ranks #365 of 981 Ohio districts by per-pupil spending (Ohio districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Innovation Academy West operates 1 public schools serving 114 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Ohio. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Cuyahoga County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $15,632 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 981 Ohio districts by per-pupil spending. See how Ohio compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 0.9% local, 59.3% state, and 39.8% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
and 61.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 38.9% African American, 30.5% Hispanic or Latino, 15.3% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Innovation Academy West, enrolling 131 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 11.4% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (114 to 127 students), while the student-teacher ratio tightened by 0.7 students per teacher, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $2,042,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 53.5% went to instruction, 27.7% to support services, and 7.3% to capital outlay, a fairly typical instruction/support/capital split for a public school district. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Innovation Academy West accounts for 100.0% of all Innovation Academy West student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Innovation Academy West a distant remainder — means Innovation Academy West-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: elementary. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
Innovation Academy West chronic absenteeism rate is 61.1% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.
Innovation Academy West has 1 school, including 1 elementary. Total enrollment is 114 students.
How much does Innovation Academy West spend per student?
Innovation Academy West spends $15,632 per student.
What is the demographic composition of Innovation Academy West?
Innovation Academy West students are 38.9% African American, 30.5% Hispanic or Latino, 15.3% White, 0.8% Asian, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.