Mapleton Elementary School

Mapleton Elementary School is a small public school in Mapleton, Oregon, serving grades K–5 with 63 students as part of Mapleton School District 32, a rural district that ranks 91st of 141 Oregon districts. The school ranks 433rd of 709 statewide in 2025–2026, placing it at the 39th percentile with 2 stars — a notable climb from the 6th–14th percentile range it held from 2010–2012 and the 11th–22nd percentile from 2014–2019.

Compared with the only nearby school provided, Siuslaw Elementary School (519 students, about 12.85 miles away in Siuslaw School District 97J), Mapleton's clearest academic strength is English language arts: 55.6% of all students met proficiency, above Siuslaw's 39.5% and the state's 43.8%, with 5th grade ELA at 54.5%. Math is more mixed — 35.3% across all grades, slightly above Siuslaw and the state, but 5th grade math is 27.3%, below both. Science is the clearest weakness at 14.3%, less than half of Siuslaw's 29.8% and the state's 30.6%. Chronic absenteeism is a serious concern: 48.3% in 2024–25, versus 30.6% at Siuslaw and 33.5% statewide, though the trend has been volatile, ranging from 27.1% to 60.3% in recent years.

Mapleton serves a high-poverty population, with free/reduced lunch rates near 98% in 2022–23 and 2023–24 (the 2024–25 figure of 117.46% exceeds 100% and should be treated as a data-quality flag). Per-student spending is $43,767, more than double Siuslaw's $20,934, which likely reflects fixed costs spread across very few students. The student/teacher ratio is 15.7, close to Siuslaw's 14.1. Note that 3rd and 4th grade ELA and math scores are suppressed by the state, so those figures are unknown rather than zero, and with only 63 students, percentages can swing sharply from year to year.