Elementary Schools in Dayton School District 8

Elementary schools in Dayton School District 8 consist of a single school — Dayton Grade School — serving grades K–5 with about 320 students at 526 Ferry St in Dayton, Oregon. Because the district has only one elementary building, this school is the district's entire elementary segment, and its tested students are also the district's elementary tested population. That makes comparisons straightforward: at every grade level, the school's proficiency rates are identical to the district's, while the district's overall figures are pulled down by students outside this K–5 building.

The clearest strength is attendance. Chronic absenteeism is 27.3%, better than both the district's 34.2% and Oregon's 33.5% — the only measure where the school beats both benchmarks. Science is at state parity (30.0% versus 30.6% statewide) and 6.1 points above the district. In English language arts, 32.5% of all grades are proficient, above the district's 30.3% but 11.3 points below the state's 43.8%. Math is the soft spot: 23.7% proficient, above the district's 17.6% yet 9.2 points behind the state's 32.9%.

Grade-level trends point in opposite directions. ELA rises from 27.3% in third grade to 32.1% in fourth and 40.0% in fifth, narrowing the gap to the state. Math falls the other way — 28.8%, then 22.6%, then 18.0% in fifth grade, meaning roughly four in five fifth graders are not proficient in math before leaving the building. The school's state ranking moved from the 15th percentile (1 star) in 2023‑2024 to the 33rd percentile (2 stars) in 2024‑2025 and back to the 25th percentile (1 star) in 2025‑2026, still above the district's own 18th percentile. Per-student spending is $23,129 with a 15.3 student–teacher ratio. Note that the reported free/reduced lunch figure of 117.81% is impossible as a percentage and should be verified before being used to interpret results, and with roughly 53 students per grade, one student shifts a grade-level rate by about 2 points.