Summary:
Sweet Home School District 55 in Oregon has only one middle school, Sweet Home Junior High School, which serves grades 6-8. The school has faced declining performance in recent years, with its statewide ranking dropping from 246 out of 367 Oregon middle schools in 2021-2022 to 289 out of 371 in 2023-2024, earning a 2-star rating out of 5.
Sweet Home Junior High School's proficiency rates in English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science are significantly lower than the state averages for Oregon. For example, in 2023-2024, the 8th-grade proficiency rates were 22% in ELA (compared to 40.6% statewide), 21.2% in Math (compared to 26.4% statewide), and 11.6% in Science (compared to 25.9% statewide). The school also has a high percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, at 67.89% in 2022-2023, and a student-teacher ratio of 18:1, slightly higher than the state average.
Despite the Sweet Home School District 55 spending $15,821 per student in 2021-2022, the academic outcomes at Sweet Home Junior High School do not seem to reflect this investment. This suggests a need to re-evaluate the effectiveness of the school's instructional practices and resource allocation to address the significant gaps in student performance compared to the state averages.
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