Summary:
Lafayette, Oregon has just one school in this data set: Wascher Elementary School, a public elementary school serving grades K–5 with 371 students. It is part of McMinnville School District 40, which ranks 31st of 141 Oregon districts at the 78th percentile with 4 stars. Because Lafayette has no middle, high, or alternative schools listed, families here have a single in-city option at the elementary level and would look to the wider district for later grades.
Wascher itself is a 4-star school in 2025–2026, ranked 211th of 709 Oregon schools at the 70th percentile, and it has been improving: it moved from 311th and 3 stars in 2023–2024 to 211th and 4 stars in 2025–2026, a rise from the 56th to the 70th percentile. Academically, it beats both its district and the state in all-grade English Language Arts (53.2% vs. 48.4% and 43.8%), math (43.5% vs. 39.8% and 32.9%), and science (41.3% vs. 35.5% and 30.6%). Fifth grade is the brightest spot, with ELA at 66.7%, math at 47.6%, and science at 41.3%. The clearest relative weakness is 3rd grade, especially math at 35.0%, which is below both district and state, while 3rd-grade ELA is only slightly above the state and below the district. Fourth grade is above both district and state in ELA and math. Science is tested only at 5th grade, so that result reflects a single cohort.
Two context figures stand out. Chronic absenteeism is 19.9%, far below the district's 29.9% and the state's 33.5% — roughly a third lower than the district and about 41% lower than the state. Meanwhile, 82.21% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, indicating substantial economic need, which makes the above-average results notable. The school spends $18,472 per student with a student-teacher ratio of 16.2, though the data set offers no district or state comparison for those two figures.
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