LaCreole Middle School

As a reasonably sized intermediate school in Dallas, Oregon, LaCreole Middle School educates 569 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within Dallas SD 2.

LaCreole Middle School is one of 7 schools operated by Dallas SD 2, a district that serves 2,953 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, LaCreole Middle School logs that the largest single group is White, at 73% of enrollment. Other groups include 18% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.3:1, putting LaCreole Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 70% of students at LaCreole Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Polk County runs at roughly 84%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), LaCreole Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.3%, the actual is 27.5%, a residual of -7.8 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Polk County put the typical household earns roughly $85,118 per year, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. LaCreole Middle School is one of 24 public schools in Polk County (combined enrollment of about 11,121 students).

The closest other public school is Whitworth Elementary School, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around LaCreole Middle School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LaCreole Middle School at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 27.4%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 12%: 648 students in 2018 compared to 569 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 12% to 18%.

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