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Athena, Oregon - 3 schools
An equity score of 71/100 ranks Athena-Weston Sd 29rj #24 of 160 districts in Oregon (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $15,075 per pupil, Athena-Weston Sd 29rj ranks #109 of 194 Oregon districts by per-pupil spending (Oregon districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
557
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$15,075
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Athena-Weston Sd 29rj operates 3 public schools serving 557 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Oregon. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary, 1 high, 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 Umatilla County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $15,075 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 194 Oregon districts by per-pupil spending. See how Oregon compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 22.7% local, 69.7% state, and 7.6% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles. The district's equity score is 71/100, ranked #24 of 160 in Oregon against a state average of 50, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 3 schools offering Advanced Placement (9 AP courses district-wide), and 63.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 72.1% White, 13.6% Hispanic or Latino, 0.2% Asian across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Weston-Mcewen High School, with a diversity index of 46.8/100.
Its largest campus is Weston Middle School, enrolling 187 students (39% of the district's total enrollment).
Weston Middle School accounts for 33.6% of all Athena-Weston Sd 29rj student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Athena-Weston Sd 29rj-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: elementary. 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.
Athena-Weston Sd 29rj has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 58.4% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Areas above 75% eligibility receive concentration grants on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Athena-Weston Sd 29rj chronic absenteeism rate is 63.4% — 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.