Dayton Grade School

Dayton Grade School is one of the middle-of-the-pack primary schools in Dayton, Oregon, overseen by Dayton SD 8, with 320 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Dayton SD 8 comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 834 students; Dayton Grade School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Dayton Grade School lists that 58% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 37% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Yamhill County as a whole is about 77% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.4:1. The state averages around 16.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 118% of students at Dayton Grade School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Yamhill County (around 77%), the school's rate is north of typical.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Yamhill County) reports that median household earnings sit near $90,063, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Yamhill County runs 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,724 students), of which Dayton Grade School is one.

The closest other public school is Dayton High School, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Dayton Grade School.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 26%: 432 students in 2018 compared to 320 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 21.6:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.

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