Innovation Academy West

Innovation Academy West is one of the one-room-style K-5 schools in Cleveland, Ohio, one of the schools within Innovation Academy West, with 131 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 404 students each, so Innovation Academy West sits 68% below that benchmark.

Operationally, Innovation Academy West answers to Innovation Academy West, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

On the student-mix side, Innovation Academy West records that the largest single group is Black at 39%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 31% Hispanic, 15% White, 15% multiracial. By comparison, Cuyahoga County as a whole is about 29% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.9:1 average.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Cuyahoga County put the typical household earns roughly $64,468 per year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Innovation Academy West is one of 352 public schools in Cuyahoga County (combined enrollment of about 155,924 students).

The closest other public school is West Park Bilingual Academy, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies an urban site. Innovation Academy West is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Innovation Academy West has fell 44%, going from 233 students in 2018 to 131 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 26% to 15%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.8:1 in 2018 to 10.5:1 today.

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