Every figure on PlainSchools is rendered directly from the source NCES, CRDC and F-33 federal
records, no number is typed in by an editor. District totals are aggregated directly from the schools reporting under this district in the source records. See our
editorial standards & corrections policy, the
methodology behind these numbers, or
report a data error. Data current as of June 2026.
Butte Falls, Oregon - 1 schools
At $22,118 per pupil, Butte Falls Sd 91 ranks #34 of 194 Oregon districts by per-pupil spending (Oregon districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
196
Total Enrollment
1
Schools
$22,118
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Butte Falls Sd 91 operates 1 public schools serving 196 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 Jackson County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $22,118 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 11.0% local, 79.5% state, and 9.5% 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 88.2% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 86.4% White, 11.0% Hispanic or Latino, 1.7% Asian across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Butte Falls Charter School, enrolling 119 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Butte Falls Charter School accounts for 60.7% of all Butte Falls Sd 91 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Butte Falls Sd 91 a distant remainder — means Butte Falls Sd 91-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.
Butte Falls Sd 91 has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 80.6% 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 — including this one — 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.
Butte Falls Sd 91 chronic absenteeism rate is 88.2% — 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.