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Hillsboro Online Academy is an alternative public virtual school serving grades K-12 in the Hillsboro School District 1J in Oregon, with 344 students as of the 2022-2023 school year. The school's student body is predominantly White (55.81%), followed by Hispanic (25.58%), and students of two or more races (8.72%).
Hillsboro Online Academy consistently outperforms the Hillsboro School District 1J and the state of Oregon in English Language Arts (ELA) proficiency across multiple grade levels, with 5th grade ELA proficiency at 66.7% compared to 42.7% for the district and 47.1% for the state. In mathematics, the school's performance is more mixed, with some grade levels performing better than the district and state, while others lag behind. However, the school's science proficiency is noteworthy, with 5th grade students achieving 58.3% proficiency, significantly higher than the district's 27.6% and the state's 30.3%. The school has also seen a significant improvement in its student-teacher ratio, decreasing from 53.5 in 2020-2021 to 16.7 in 2022-2023, and its spending per student of $11,534 in 2021-2022 is higher than the state average.
Interestingly, the racial composition of Hillsboro Online Academy's student body has shifted over the past three years, with the percentage of White students decreasing from 69.87% in 2020-2021 to 55.81% in 2022-2023, while the percentage of Hispanic students has increased from 13.8% to 25.58% during the same period. Compared to nearby virtual schools, such as Scappoose Online Academy and Tigard-Tualatin Virtual Academy, Hillsboro Online Academy's performance on standardized tests generally exceeds that of these schools, particularly in ELA and science. However, the school's mathematics proficiency lags behind some of the nearby virtual schools. When compared to the nearby traditional public school, Metropolitan Learning Center, Hillsboro Online Academy's test scores are mixed, with the traditional school outperforming the virtual school in some grade levels and subjects, while the virtual school excels in others.
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