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Elgin, Oregon - 2 schools
An equity score of 69/100 ranks Elgin Sd 23 #27 of 160 districts in Oregon (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $14,515 per pupil, Elgin Sd 23 ranks #127 of 194 Oregon districts by per-pupil spending (Oregon districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
405
Total Enrollment
2
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$14,515
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Elgin Sd 23 operates 2 public schools serving 405 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Oregon. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 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 Union County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $14,515 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 18.6% local, 71.5% state, and 9.9% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles. The district's equity score is 69/100, ranked #27 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 2 schools offering Advanced Placement (1 AP courses district-wide), a 192:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 45.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 90.4% White, 5.2% Hispanic or Latino, 0.8% Asian across the district's schools.
Stella Mayfield Elementary School accounts for 50.4% of all Elgin Sd 23 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Elgin Sd 23 a distant remainder — means Elgin Sd 23-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.
Elgin Sd 23 has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 69.0% 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). Eligibility here is approaching the 75% concentration-grant threshold; it does not yet unlock the extra funding tier but sits meaningfully above the baseline 50% majority mark. 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.
Elgin Sd 23 student-counselor ratio is 192:1 — low (typically associated with meeting or exceeding the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommended 250:1 benchmark, which correlates with stronger college and career counseling capacity)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
Elgin Sd 23 chronic absenteeism rate is 45.0% — 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.