Summary:
ZIP code 97114 covers Dayton, Oregon, where three public schools serve students from kindergarten through 12th grade — Dayton Grade School (K–5, 320 students), Dayton Junior High School (6–8, 204 students) and Dayton High School (9–12, 310 students), for a total of 834 students. All three belong to Dayton School District 8, which ranks 116th of 141 Oregon districts — the 18th percentile, with 1 star.
Dayton High School is the clear bright spot, having climbed to 142 of 271 schools (48th percentile, 2 stars) after 227 of 270 (16th percentile) and 195 of 268 (27th percentile) in prior years. Its graduation rate is 91.4%, well above the state's 83.0%, and its all-grade English language arts proficiency of 47.4% beats the state's 43.8%. Math (18.2% vs. 22.9%) and science (29.9% vs. 33.8%) remain below state, and chronic absenteeism is 43.2% — the highest of the three schools and above both the district's 34.2% and the state's 33.5%.
Dayton Junior High School is the biggest concern: 335 of 371 (10th percentile, 0 stars), in the bottom decile for three straight years, with all-grade proficiency far below state in ELA (21.6% vs. 43.8%), math (12.0% vs. 32.9%) and science (11.5% vs. 30.6%). It also has the lowest per-student spending ($18,990) and highest student-teacher ratio (18.8). Dayton Grade School is mixed: 531 of 709 (25th percentile, 1 star), down from 471 of 706 (33rd percentile, 2 stars), with science at 30.0% essentially matching the state's 30.6%, but ELA (32.5%) and math (23.7%) below state. Its attendance (27.3%) and spending ($23,129) are the best in the group. Note that reported free/reduced-lunch figures exceed 100% for all three schools and should be treated as a data-quality issue.
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