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OZARK JR SR HIGH SCHOOL
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ATLAS 2023-24 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 33 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 24 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 34 and 36.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% typical for Arkansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Arkansas's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About OZARK JR SR HIGH SCHOOL
Set in OZARK, Arkansas, OZARK JR SR HIGH SCHOOL is a reasonably sized high school, one of the schools within OZARK SCHOOL DISTRICT. It enrolls 629 students across grades 8 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 23% bigger than the state mean of about 510.
OZARK SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,673 students; OZARK JR SR HIGH SCHOOL is among them.
Demographically, OZARK JR SR HIGH SCHOOL lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%). The remainder is composed of 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Franklin County as a whole.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, OZARK JR SR HIGH SCHOOL has 65 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 8.8:1 average. Roughly 51% of students at OZARK JR SR HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Franklin County runs at roughly 61%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, OZARK JR SR HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.0%, the actual is 28.5%, a residual of -11.5 points.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Franklin County indicate median household income runs about $55,886, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Franklin County's 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,039 students), OZARK JR SR HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is ELGIN B MILTON PRIMARY SCHOOL, roughly 1.6 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, OZARK JR SR HIGH SCHOOL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 32.3%.
Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.
Trend over the last 7 years. OZARK JR SR HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has grew 63% since 2018, when it stood at 386 (now 629). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 94% to 90%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 9.7:1 today.
Inside the community feed, the feed for OZARK JR SR HIGH SCHOOL typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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