Summary
Allen Dale Elementary School is a K–5 school in Grants Pass, Oregon, serving 397 students as part of Grants Pass School District 7. In 2025–2026 it ranked 349th of 709 Oregon elementary schools, placing it at the 51st percentile with a 3-star rating. That marks a partial recovery: the school reached the 73rd percentile (4 stars) in 2018–2019, slipped to the 41st percentile in 2022–2023, and has since climbed back to the 51st percentile — real improvement, but still below its earlier peak.
Math is the school's relative bright spot. All-grades Math proficiency is 40.2%, above the district's 36.1% and the state's 32.9%. ELA sits at 41.9%, below both the district (50.9%) and the state (43.8%), and Science is the clearest weakness at 21.4% — far below the district (36.5%) and state (30.6%) and the lowest among same-district elementary schools. Grade 5 is the bottleneck: its ELA (42.9%), Math (26.1%), and Science (21.4%) results are all below district and state and the lowest among district peers such as Highland Elementary School, Riverside Elementary School, Lincoln Elementary School, Parkside Elementary, and Redwood Elementary School. Grade 3, by contrast, is at or above state averages, so the school's Math strength is carried by Grades 3 and 4.
Subgroup effectiveness is a notable strength: rankings for Hispanic students and low-SES students are both at the 85th percentile, well above the school's 51st-percentile overall rank, and Special Education students rose from the 8th percentile to the 42nd. Chronic absenteeism, however, jumped from 18.2% to 31.5% — still better than the district (31.8%) and state (33.5%), but higher than most same-district peers, including Redwood at 19.4%. Redwood also shows that resources alone don't explain results: it has a higher student-teacher ratio (19.2 vs. 18.0) and lower per-student spending ($18,138 vs. $18,503), yet higher proficiency and much lower absenteeism.
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