By Starla Pointer • Staff Writer • August 26, 2025 TweetStudents returning to class this week and nextYamhill County students will be heading back to school next week – except for those in Willamina, who started classes Monday, Aug. 25. The weather should be sunny and warm for returning students, although not quite as hot as the past few days, according to weather.com. Throughout the county, teachers are already returning, as well, to prepare classrooms and get ready to meet their new students. At the high school and middle school levels, the younger students — freshmen and sixth-graders — will start Tuesday morning. Dayton also has a new, yet familiar, middle school principal: Jami Fluke has returned to Dayton after several years in Willamina.