Summary:
Middle schools in Lake County School District 7 come down to a single building: Daly Middle School in Lakeview, Oregon, serving grades 7 and 8 with 126 students — about 60 to 65 per grade. Because it is the district's only middle school, the meaningful comparisons are against the district and the state rather than against other local schools. The surrounding context is small-town and high-need: 83.33% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, chronic absenteeism is 44.8%, and per-student spending is $15,756 with a 25.2:1 student-teacher ratio, meaning roughly five teachers for the entire school.
The strongest results at Daly Middle School are in math, especially in 7th grade. Seventh-grade math proficiency is 53.6%, which is 20.3 points above the state rate of 33.3%, and math overall (34.9%) beats both the district (31.0%) and the state (32.9%). This is the one subject where the school outperforms its benchmarks. The school's state ranking also improved from 272nd to 250th, a partial recovery after a sharp drop the prior year, though it remains below its 2023-2024 position of 212th.
The concerns are concentrated in 8th grade and in attendance. Eighth-grade English Language Arts proficiency is 19.2% — 22.3 points below the state — and 8th grade science is 11.3% against a state rate of 27.7%. Both figures match the district exactly, offering no upward pull from elsewhere. Across the 7th-to-8th grade transition, ELA drops 27.2 points and math 28.1 points, while the state declines only about 3 to 4 points. Chronic absenteeism of 44.8% is above both the district (37.2%) and the state (33.5%). Finally, with roughly 60 students per grade, one student equals about 1.6 percentage points, so year-to-year swings should be read cautiously.
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