Summary:
ZIP code 97338 (Dallas, Oregon) is home to exactly one middle school: LaCreole Middle School, which serves grades 6–8 and enrolls 569 students. It is the only middle school in the area, so there are no local peers to compare it against; the meaningful benchmarks are its own district, Dallas School District 2, and the state of Oregon.
On 2025–2026 state tests, LaCreole scores below Oregon in every subject: 35.5% proficient in English Language Arts (state 43.8%), 23.4% in Math (state 32.9%), and 21.5% in Science (state 30.6%). The gaps are uneven. Seventh-grade ELA, at 44.3%, is essentially at state parity and is the school's clear bright spot, while sixth-grade ELA (29.2%) and eighth-grade Math (19.0%) are the weakest spots — 12.6 and 11.0 points behind the state. Science shows the widest divergence from the district (21.5% vs. 28.3%). Schoolwide ELA proficiency actually edges out the district (35.5% vs. 34.2%), and Math sits close to it, so the school is largely tracking its district even as both trail the state.
Context matters here. Chronic absenteeism is 38.1%, above the district (32.0%) and the state (33.5%), and 70.3% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch. Spending per student is $16,513 with a student–teacher ratio of 18.4 — resources look adequate on paper, suggesting attendance and poverty-related barriers are the bigger constraint. The school's state ranking has swung widely across three years (26th, then 54th, then 31st percentile), which for a school this size likely reflects cohort differences rather than a steady trend. For parents, the most actionable signals are eighth-grade math and science, sixth-grade ELA, and attendance.
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