Summary:
Zip code 97420 in Coos Bay, Oregon, has two public high schools serving grades 9–12—Marshfield Senior High School (798 students) and Destinations Academy (46 students)—both in Coos Bay School District 9, which is ranked 90th of 141 districts (36th percentile, 2 stars).
For parents comparing the two, Marshfield Senior High School is larger and higher-performing. Its 2025–2026 rank is 136 of 271 (50th percentile, 3 stars), up from 160 of 268 (40th percentile, 2 stars) in 2023–2024. Science is its strength: 39.4% proficient, above the district (30.2%) and state (30.6%). Math is weakest: 18.1% proficient, below the district (23.2%) and state (32.9%). Chronic absenteeism is 48.1%, above district (40.4%) and state (33.5%), and graduation is 75.3%, just below the district (75.7%) and state (83.0%). Destinations Academy ranks 244 of 271 (10th percentile, 1 star) in 2025–2026, after 206 of 270 (24th percentile) in 2024–2025. Its proficiency is low—ELA 25%, math 9.1%, science 14.3%—and chronic absenteeism is 77.5%. Yet its graduation rate is 87.5%, above the district and state, an unusual contrast likely tied to its small 46-student enrollment and alternative-program mission.
Key metrics show a wide gap. Marshfield reports $27,562 per-student spending and a 20.4 student-teacher ratio; Destinations reports $7,092 and 15.3, though small alternative schools often have different accounting, so per-student comparisons need caution. Destinations’ free/reduced lunch figure is 113.04%, which is not a valid percentage and should be treated as a data-quality anomaly; Marshfield’s 28.82% is plausible. All Grades and 11th Grade test scores are identical at each school, consistent with OSAS high-school testing being concentrated in 11th grade. The district’s 36th-percentile rank masks a wide school-level gap: Marshfield is at the 50th percentile and Destinations at the 10th. Marshfield is about 17 times larger, making Destinations’ rates more volatile and district averages heavily influenced by Marshfield.
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