An equity score of 60/100 ranks Gaston Sd 511j #47 of 160 districts in Oregon (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $17,495 per pupil, Gaston Sd 511j ranks #88 of 196 Oregon districts by per-pupil spending (Oregon districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
483
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$17,495
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Gaston Sd 511j operates 2 public schools serving 483 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Oregon. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined, 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 Washington County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $17,495 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 26.0% local, 64.4% state, and 9.6% 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 60/100, ranked #47 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 (3 AP courses district-wide), and 45.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 81.1% White, 15.1% Hispanic or Latino, 0.4% Asian across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Gaston Jr/Sr High School, enrolling 246 students (52% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses held roughly steady from 2022-23 to 2023-24 (479 to 482 students, +0.6%), per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $9,713,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 48.5% went to instruction, 37.1% to support services, and 2.8% 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.
Gaston Jr/Sr High School accounts for 50.9% of all Gaston Sd 511j student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Gaston Sd 511j a distant remainder — means Gaston Sd 511j-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: combined. 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.
Gaston Sd 511j 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.