Summary:
ZIP code 97457 (Myrtle Creek, Oregon) contains exactly one high school: South Umpqua High School, a grades 9–12 campus serving 442 students as part of the South Umpqua School District 19. With only one school in the area, there is nothing to compare it against locally, so the most useful benchmarks are its own district and the state of Oregon.
The school's biggest recent change is its ranking. It moved from the 10th percentile of Oregon high schools in 2024-2025 (1 star) to the 52nd percentile in 2025-2026 (3 stars) — a 42-point jump — though it sat at the 22nd percentile the year before, so the trend has been uneven rather than a steady climb. Classroom results are lopsided. About 1 in 2 students met the English Language Arts standard (48.8%) and roughly 1 in 3 met the science standard (35.7%), both slightly above Oregon's 11th-grade figures of 46.0% and 33.8%. Math is the clear weak spot: 14.5% met the standard versus 22.9% of 11th graders statewide. Parents should know that Oregon's all-grades math figure (32.9%) includes elementary and middle schoolers, which makes the school's math gap look larger than the fair, grade-11 comparison shows. The spread between the school's own reading and math results — 34.3 points — is far wider than the state's.
Outcomes tell a mixed story. The graduation rate is 84.0%, above both the district (81.7%) and the state (83.0%) — notable given that 83.03% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Chronic absenteeism, however, is 56.9%, well above the district's 40.2% and the state's 33.5%, meaning more than half the student body. The school spends $17,780 per student, with a student-teacher ratio of 18.4:1. Attendance is the clearest, most actionable concern here.
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