Southland College Prep Charter High School

The area’s list contains one school: Southland College Prep Charter High School, a grades 9–12 high school with 584 students. In 2025–26, its graduation rate was 99%, compared with 90% statewide, and chronic absenteeism was 7%, compared with 24% statewide. The clearest academic pattern is a subject split: results were above the state in every reported ELA and science comparison, but below it in all three math comparisons.

There are no other schools in this list to rank against it, but the school’s strongest and weakest subjects are clear in the state comparisons. ELA averaged 11 percentage points above the state across the three grade-and-exam results, including 69% versus 50% on Grade 11 ACT ELA. Science averaged 7 points above the state. Mathematics averaged 8 points below the state: results were 34% versus 40% in Grade 11 ACT, 26% versus 36% in Grade 10 PreACT, and 34% versus 42% in Grade 9 PreACT. So ELA and science stand out positively, while math is the most consistent concern.

Results changed unevenly from 2024–25 to 2025–26: Grade 9 ELA rose from 59% to 69%, and Grade 9 science from 42% to 52%, while Grade 11 ACT math fell from 40% to 34%; Grade 10 ELA and science also declined. Across all nine comparisons, the equal-weight average gap from the state edged up from 2.6 to 3.2 percentage points, masking the widening math gap. SchoolDigger ranked the school 204th of 620 schools, at the 67th percentile, in 2025–26, after 198th of 698 (72nd percentile) the prior year. The student-teacher ratio was 10.1 in 2024–25, and 45% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year; these are context, not evidence of what caused the results. The list includes only one school, so it cannot show how the school compares with similar local schools.