Best Elementary Schools in Mapleton, OR

Mapleton, Oregon is served by exactly one elementary school: Mapleton Elementary School, a K–5 campus of 63 students in the Mapleton School District 32. With roughly 10–11 students per grade, it is the district's complete elementary pipeline — grade-level results for the school and the district are identical. The student–teacher ratio is 15.7:1 (about four teachers), and per-student spending is $43,767, or roughly $2.76 million a year; for a school this small, that mostly reflects fixed costs like administration and facilities rather than extra classroom staffing.

Academically, the school's profile is split. In 2025–26 OSAS results, ELA proficiency is 55.6% — 11.8 points above the state (43.8%) and 23.6 points above its own district (32.0%). Math is 35.3%, slightly above the state's 32.9% and well above the district's 17.1%. Science is the weak spot at 14.3%, 16.3 points below the state (30.6%) and 12.7 points below the district (27.0%). In grade-level detail, third- and fourth-grade ELA and math results are suppressed at the school, district, and state level because those groups fall under the state's reporting threshold; fifth grade shows ELA at 54.5% (state 47.1%), math at 27.3% (state 32.4%), and science at 14.3% (state 30.8%). Because cohorts are tiny, a single student can shift a grade-level figure by several points.

The school has climbed in state rank over the years on record: from the 14th percentile in 2017–18 (613th of about 709 schools, 1 star) to the 22nd in 2018–19 and up to the 39th percentile in 2025–26 (433rd, 2 stars) — a 25-point gain, though no ranks are reported in the intervening years. Chronic absenteeism, at 48.3%, is the clearest challenge: about 15 points above the state (33.5%) and 7.5 above the district (40.8%), meaning roughly one in two students is chronically absent. Parents should also note three data quirks: the suppressed third- and fourth-grade scores are unknown, not zero; the reported free/reduced-lunch figure of 117.46% is internally impossible and likely a count-based anomaly; and the rank history skips eight years.