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Mazama High School
Test scores
OSAS 2024-25 . % ProficientWhat this means: On the OSAS, Oregon's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Oregon schools, those numbers are about 43 and 32. Reading and writing scores are up about 13 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 27% typical for Oregon 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 Oregon's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Mazama High School
Mazama High School is one of the moderately sized senior highs in Klamath Falls, Oregon, one of the schools within Klamath County SD, with 690 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12.
Across the 21 schools in Klamath County SD (6,774 students total), Mazama High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Looking at the student body, Mazama High School shows that White students make up the majority at 61%; the rest consists of 26% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 5% Native American. By comparison, Klamath County as a whole is about 77% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.8:1, putting Mazama High School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 92% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mazama High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 26.7%; this one delivers 34.0%.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Klamath County) shows that median household income runs about $58,830, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Klamath County runs 30 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,474 students), of which Mazama High School is one.
Nearest neighbor: Stearns Elementary School, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mazama High School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Mazama High School at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 23.6%.
The school occupies a town-based site.
Five-year trend. Mazama High School's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 691 (now 690). Hispanic enrollment moved from 21% to 26% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 19.9:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 today.
Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Klamath County at a glance
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