Summary:
ZIP code 97434 has only one elementary school, Dorena School, a K-8 school in South Lane School District 45J3 with 100 students, so this profile is about that single school rather than a comparison among local schools. The data includes 2025-2026 OSAS test scores and 2024-2025 information on absenteeism, free/reduced lunch, spending, and student-teacher ratio.
Academically, the school's strongest reported results are in 5th grade ELA (53.3% proficient, above district 45.0% and state 47.1%), 5th grade science (33.3%, above district 22.2% and state 30.8%), and 3rd grade ELA (45.5%, above district 31.9% and state 41.5%). All-grades science is 26.3%, above district 16.5% but below state 30.6%. Math is the clearest challenge: all-grades math is 16.7%, versus district 24.7% and state 32.9%, and grade-level math is below district and state in every reported grade. 7th grade math is under 5%, while district is 20.9% and state 33.3%. 8th grade ELA, math, and science are suppressed by the state for privacy, so those values are unknown and should not be treated as zero.
Non-academic data show high chronic absenteeism at 38.4%, above district 27.2% and state 33.5%, and a 77% free/reduced lunch rate. Per-student spending is $16,972 and student-teacher ratio 18.1. Rank history has been volatile: 207 of 710 (71st percentile, 4 stars) in 2023-2024, 523 of 706 (26th percentile, 1 star) in 2024-2025, and 438 of 709 (38th percentile, 2 stars) in 2025-2026, matching the district's percentile but below its earlier high. With 100 students across K-8, grade-level percentages come from small cohorts, so year-to-year swings should be interpreted with caution. Overall, the school has pockets of above-average performance, especially in 5th grade ELA and science, but faces a broad math challenge and high absenteeism.
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