Best Public Schools in Lakeview, OR

Lakeview, Oregon has four public schools—two elementary, one middle, and one high school—all in Lake County School District 7, serving 678 students. Free/reduced lunch ranges from 57.02% at Lakeview Senior High School to 85.71% at Union Elementary School. Per-student spending varies widely ($15,756 at Daly Middle School to $28,466 at Lakeview Senior High), and student-teacher ratios range from 11.9–14.1 at three schools to 25.2 at Daly Middle. The district is ranked 68th of 141 in Oregon (52nd percentile, 3 stars). Current 2025-26 school ranks show Daly at the 33rd percentile (2 stars) and Lakeview Senior High at the 60th percentile (3 stars); Union Elementary has no current rank shown.

Union Elementary stands out on current metrics: ELA 60% proficient and math 52%, chronic absenteeism of 7.3%—far below the district’s 37.2% and state’s 33.5%. However, its enrollment is only 42, its science and all grade-level results are state-suppressed (treat as unknown), and its last rank history is from 2018-19 (93rd percentile, 5 stars). Lakeview Senior High has the highest current rank (108/271, 60th percentile, 3 stars), with a graduation rate of 87.5%, ELA of 67.6%, and science of 37.5%—but math is only 8.6%. Daly Middle has math all grades at 34.9% (7th-grade math 53.6%), yet ELA is 28.8%, science 11.3%, chronic absenteeism 44.8%, the highest student-teacher ratio (25.2), and lowest spending. Fremont/Hay Elementary, the largest school (275), has ELA 39.6%, math 30.4%, science 34.1% (above state), and chronic absenteeism 33.5%.

The district overall is below the state in all three tested subjects. Most striking is Lakeview Senior High’s ELA-math gap: 67.6% versus 8.6%. Chronic absenteeism tracks unevenly—Union has low absenteeism and high proficiency; Daly has high absenteeism and low ELA/science; Lakeview High has high absenteeism (41.7%) yet strong ELA and graduation. Resource metrics do not map to outcomes. Rank history shows improvement at Lakeview High (38th to 60th percentile) and Daly (26th to 33rd, still below 2023-24’s 43rd), while Fremont/Hay is stable in the low-to-mid 40s. Union’s current trajectory is unknown from this data, and its suppressed values are unknown, not weakness.