Dayton High School

Set in Dayton, Oregon, Dayton High School is a close-knit 9-12 campus, one of the schools within Dayton SD 8. It educates 310 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Oregon's public schools average about 630 students each, so Dayton High School sits 51% below that benchmark.

Within Dayton SD 8, which oversees 3 schools and 834 students, Dayton High School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Dayton High School reports that the largest single group is White, at 56% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 40% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 77%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Dayton High School logs 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.7:1. The state averages around 19.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 161% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Yamhill County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Yamhill County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,063 per year, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Dayton High School is one of 34 public schools in Yamhill County (combined enrollment of about 14,724 students).

Dayton Jr High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Dayton High School.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Dayton High School's enrollment has contracted 6% since 2018, when it stood at 330 (now 310). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 20.3:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 today.

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