At $25,393 per pupil, Helix Sd 1 ranks #31 of 196 Oregon districts by per-pupil spending (Oregon districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Helix Sd 1 operates 1 public schools serving 145 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 Umatilla County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $25,393 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 33.8% local, 62.5% state, and 3.6% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
and 31.6% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 80.0% White, 6.8% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Helix School, enrolling 190 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 29.2% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (144 to 186 students), while the student-teacher ratio widened by 2.2 students per teacher, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $4,243,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 54.6% went to instruction, 28.9% to support services, and 10.3% to capital outlay, a fairly typical instruction/support/capital split for a public school district. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Helix School accounts for 100.0% of all Helix Sd 1 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Helix Sd 1 a distant remainder — means Helix Sd 1-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.
Helix Sd 1 chronic absenteeism rate is 31.6% — high (typically associated with higher-than-average disruption; recent CRDC data showed elevated rates persisting after pandemic-era schooling changes)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.