Summary:
In zip code 72949, there is one high school, Ozark Junior Senior High School, serving grades 8 through 12 in the Ozark, Arkansas area with a total enrollment of 629 students.
Ozark Junior Senior High School is part of the Ozark School District, which holds a middling state ranking. The school itself shows a notable strength in Biology, where 48.1% of students are proficient, outperforming the state average of 42.7%. However, it consistently struggles in Mathematics and Algebra, with only 34.7% proficiency in Math compared to the state's 44.1%. A striking anomaly is the performance of 8th graders in Algebra, where 74.2% are proficient, nearly matching the state average, while 9th-grade Algebra proficiency plummets to just 20.4%. This suggests a two-tiered math system where advanced students are accelerated early, but the majority of students taking Algebra later face significant challenges.
The school boasts a high graduation rate of 92.5% and an exceptionally low dropout rate of 0.1%, yet its core academic proficiency rates in English, Math, Reading, and Science all fall below state averages. This creates a paradox where students are successfully kept in school and graduated, but many do not meet state-defined proficiency standards. Additionally, overall proficiency declined in every core subject from the 2024-2025 to the 2025-2026 school year, a concerning trend that aligns with a drop in the school's state ranking. With a low student-teacher ratio of 9.7:1 and spending per student at $11,961, the school has resources that could be leveraged to address these academic gaps.
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