Dayton Jr High School

Dayton Jr High School is a junior high of tight-knit scale in Dayton, Oregon, run under Dayton SD 8, teacheing 204 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Oregon's public schools average about 494 students each, so Dayton Jr High School sits 59% smaller than that benchmark.

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

In terms of who attends, Dayton Jr High School logs that the largest single group is White at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 42% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 77%.

On the resource side, The school lists 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 111% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Yamhill County's rate of about 77%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Yamhill County put the typical household earns roughly $90,063 per year, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Yamhill County runs 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,724 students), of which Dayton Jr High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Dayton High School, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Dayton Jr High School.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Dayton Jr High School has shrank 13%, going from 234 students in 2018 to 204 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 57% to 50% over that span.

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