Summary:
Oneonta High School is the sole high school serving grades 9-12 in the Oneonta City district, a single-school system in Alabama that enrolls 401 students and consistently earns a 4-star rating while ranking in the top 20% of high schools statewide.
For parents, the standout feature of Oneonta High School is its near-perfect graduation rate of 99.1%, which is 7.6 percentage points above the state average of 91.5%. The school also excels in science, with 56.57% of 11th graders proficient in 2025-2026—more than 20 points above the state average—and it showed dramatic year-over-year improvements in both science (+14.15 points) and English (+10.15 points) proficiency. Chronic absenteeism sits at 7.8%, well below the state's 12.0% rate, though it is higher than the district average of 5.6%. The school serves a moderately diverse socioeconomic population, with 39.65% of students qualifying for free/reduced lunch, yet still achieves results well above state averages across all subjects. Math proficiency remains the weakest area at 33.33%, essentially flat year-over-year, suggesting this subject may need additional attention.
Rankings have fluctuated slightly—from 48th in 2023-2024 to 78th in 2024-2025, then back up to 52nd in 2025-2026—but the school has maintained its 4-star rating throughout, indicating stable, high-quality performance. With a student-teacher ratio of 15.6:1 and per-student spending of $9,526 (from 2018-2019 data), the school operates with moderate resources while delivering strong outcomes. Since Oneonta High School is the only high school in the district, all district-level metrics mirror the school's performance, meaning the district's 84th-percentile ranking is entirely attributable to this single institution. Overall, this is a high-performing school with exceptional graduation rates and science achievement, though parents may want to monitor math proficiency and the slight attendance gap relative to the district average.
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