At $28,941 per pupil, Arock Sd 81 ranks #24 of 196 Oregon districts by per-pupil spending (Oregon districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
17
Total Enrollment
1
Schools
$28,941
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Arock Sd 81 operates 1 public schools serving 17 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Oregon. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary 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 Malheur County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $28,941 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 196 Oregon districts by per-pupil spending. See how Oregon compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 18.7% local, 77.4% state, and 3.9% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
and 41.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 91.7% White, 8.3% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is W W Jones Elementary School, enrolling 12 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses fell 35.3% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (17 to 11 students), and the student-teacher ratio tightened by 4.1 students per teacher as staffing held steadier than enrollment, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $523,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 48.9% went to instruction, 45.1% to support services, and 5.7% to capital outlay, support-services-heavy relative to typical districts, reflecting spending on transportation, administration, or student services. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
W W Jones Elementary School accounts for 70.6% of all Arock Sd 81 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Arock Sd 81 a distant remainder — means Arock Sd 81-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: elementary. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
Arock Sd 81 chronic absenteeism rate is 41.7% — high (typically associated with higher-than-average disruption; recent CRDC data showed elevated rates persisting after pandemic-era schooling changes)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.