Summary:
The Ozark School District is home to a single high school, Ozark Junior Senior High School, which serves 629 students in grades 8 through 12 in a rural Arkansas community where just over half of students qualify for free or reduced lunch.
Ozark Junior Senior High School presents a mixed profile of strengths and challenges. The school excels in student retention, boasting a graduation rate of 92.5%—above the state average of 90.1%—and an exceptionally low dropout rate of just 0.1%. It also offers very small class sizes, with a student-teacher ratio of 9.7:1. Academically, the school shows notable strengths in specific subjects, particularly Biology, where proficiency reached 48.1% in the 2025-2026 school year, outperforming the state average of 42.7%. Geometry is another bright spot, with 9th-grade students achieving an 80% proficiency rate, far exceeding the state's 59.2%.
However, the school's overall academic performance is inconsistent. In the 2024-2025 school year, it ranked 55th in the state (81st percentile) with a 4-star rating, but dropped to 107th (63rd percentile) and a 3-star rating the following year. This decline is largely driven by a sharp drop in English Language Arts and Reading proficiency, which fell from above state averages to below them. Overall proficiency in core subjects for the 2025-2026 school year lags behind state averages: English Language Arts (35.5% vs. 39.4%), Mathematics (34.7% vs. 44.1%), and Science (36.3% vs. 44.0%). A key insight is the "Algebra vs. Geometry" paradox: while 8th-grade Algebra proficiency is strong at 74.2%, 9th-grade Algebra proficiency plummets to 20.4%, suggesting that accelerated students take Algebra early while a lower-performing cohort takes it later. This pattern highlights the school's challenge of balancing strong student support with raising overall academic achievement.
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