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Arlington, Oregon - 1 schools
At $23,475 per pupil, Arlington Sd 3 ranks #27 of 194 Oregon districts by per-pupil spending (Oregon districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
150
Total Enrollment
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$23,475
Per-Pupil Spending
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Arlington Sd 3 operates 1 public schools serving 150 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Oregon. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Gilliam County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $23,475 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 194 Oregon districts by per-pupil spending. See how Oregon compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 77.2% local, 13.6% state, and 9.2% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
a 130:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 69.2% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 86.9% White, 3.1% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Arlington Community Charter School accounts for 86.7% of all Arlington Sd 3 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Arlington Sd 3 a distant remainder — means Arlington Sd 3-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Arlington Sd 3 student-counselor ratio is 130:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
Arlington Sd 3 chronic absenteeism rate is 69.2% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.