Summary:
Oberlin, Kansas is home to a single high school, Decatur Community Junior/Senior High, which serves students in grades 7-12. The school has a relatively small student population of 151 and a low student-to-teacher ratio of 8.5 to 1, which is favorable for providing individualized attention to students.
Decatur Community Junior/Senior High has a statewide ranking that has fluctuated between 145th and 154th out of 318-332 Kansas high schools over the past few years, with a 3-star rating from SchoolDigger. The school's 4-year graduation rate for the 2023-2024 school year was 89.5%, slightly below the state average, and its dropout rate for 2023-2024 was 1.3%, which is relatively low. However, the school's chronic absenteeism rate for 2024-2025 was 19.5%, higher than the state average.
Academically, Decatur Community Junior/Senior High has lower proficiency rates compared to the state average in English Language Arts (ELA) and Science across all grade levels, but it performs better than the state average in Mathematics, with 45.06% of students proficient or better across all grades, compared to the state average of 38.73%. The school's 10th-grade Mathematics proficiency rate of 57.89% was significantly higher than the state average of 33.59%. Additionally, the school has a high percentage of free and reduced-price lunch recipients, at 56.29% in the 2023-2024 school year, indicating a high level of economic disadvantage among the student population.
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