Summary:
The city of Merlin, Oregon is home to a single high school, the Southern Oregon Success Academy, which serves grades 6-12. Based on the available data, this school appears to be consistently underperforming compared to other high schools in the state of Oregon.
The Southern Oregon Success Academy has ranked in the bottom quarter of Oregon high schools for the past three school years, earning a 0-star rating from SchoolDigger. Its academic performance, as measured by proficiency rates on state assessments, is significantly below the district and state averages. For example, in the 2023-2024 school year, only 19% of 11th-grade students were proficient in ELA, compared to 48.7% in the district and 45.2% statewide. Similarly, the school's 8th-grade ELA proficiency rate was just 6.7%, compared to 47.2% in the district and 40.6% across the state.
Other key metrics suggest the school is struggling to provide a high-quality education to its students. The school has a very high student-teacher ratio of 50.4 to 1, and its spending per student of $6,731 is lower than the state average. These factors may contribute to the school's challenges in delivering personalized instruction and support to its 252 students. Overall, the data indicates that the Southern Oregon Success Academy is a struggling school that is not meeting the academic needs of its students compared to other high schools in the Three Rivers/Josephine County School District and the state of Oregon.
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