Dayville School

Dayville School is a minimally staffed unified-grade school in Dayville, Oregon, part of Dayville SD 16J. The school enrolls 48 students in grades pre-K through 12. That puts it 88% below the typical public school in Oregon, which averages around 384 students.

Dayville SD 16J is the operating authority for Dayville School, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

In terms of who attends, Dayville School lists that nearly all students (85%) are White. Beyond that, the school lists 13% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 7.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.5:1 average. Roughly 79% of students at Dayville School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Dayville School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.9%, the actual is 34.5%, a residual of +2.7 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Grant County) reports that median household income runs about $59,450, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Dayville School is one of 9 public schools in Grant County (combined enrollment of about 1,805 students).

Nearest neighbor: Monument School, around 25.1 miles off. On composite proficiency, Dayville School comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 33.5%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 47 students in 2018 compared to 48 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 2% to 13%.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.