Mapleton School District 32

Mapleton School District 32 is a very small rural Oregon district with just two schools — Mapleton Elementary School serving grades K–5 with 63 students and Mapleton Junior/Senior High School serving grades 6–12 with 76 students — for a total of 139 students, and it ranks 91 of 141 districts in Oregon (35th percentile, 2 stars). There is no standalone middle school; the middle grades sit inside the junior/senior high, so its "All Grades" scores blend middle and high school results.

The two schools have opposite profiles. Mapleton Elementary School is the academic standout in English language arts and math: 55.6% proficient in ELA versus 43.8% statewide, and 35.3% in math versus 32.9% statewide. It has also improved its state rank from 613 of 709 (14th percentile, 1 star) in 2017–2018 to 433 of 709 (39th percentile, 2 stars). Weaker spots are science at 14.3% versus 30.6% statewide and chronic absenteeism at 48.3% versus 33.5% statewide.

Mapleton Junior/Senior High School shines on graduation (91.7% versus 83.0% statewide) and 11th-grade science (63.6% versus 33.8%), but overall proficiency is low: ELA All Grades 18.8% versus 43.8% statewide, math All Grades under 5% versus 32.9%, and 8th-grade science 8.3% versus 27.7%. Its chronic absenteeism of 34.3% is close to the state. Both schools are high-need and expensive per student (roughly $43,015 combined, with free/reduced-lunch figures above 100% at both), and student-teacher ratios differ (9.5 at the high school, 15.7 at the elementary). Many grade-level scores are suppressed by the state and should be treated as unknown, not as zero.