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Falls City, Oregon - 2 schools
At $26,578 per pupil, Falls City Sd 57 ranks #16 of 194 Oregon districts by per-pupil spending (Oregon districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
184
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$26,578
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Falls City Sd 57 operates 2 public schools serving 184 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Oregon. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary, 1 high 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 Polk County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $26,578 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 20 of 194 Oregon districts by per-pupil spending. See how Oregon compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 14.5% local, 67.8% state, and 17.6% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
a 87.5:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 67.2% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 91.0% White, 4.3% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Falls City Elementary School, enrolling 116 students (66% of the district's total enrollment).
Falls City Elementary School accounts for 63.0% of all Falls City Sd 57 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Falls City Sd 57 a distant remainder — means Falls City Sd 57-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.
Falls City Sd 57 has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 97.5% 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 a supermajority of the population — well past the 75% concentration-grant threshold that unlocks extra funding 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.
Falls City Sd 57 student-counselor ratio is 88:1 — 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.
Falls City Sd 57 chronic absenteeism rate is 67.2% — 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.