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Portland, Oregon - 6 schools
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Total Enrollment
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Multnomah Esd operates 6 public schools serving 1 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Oregon. The school portfolio breaks down into 5 combined, 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 Multnomah County.
The funding mix is 69.2% local, 25.9% state, and 5.0% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
a 96.5:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 52.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 29.6% African American, 26.0% White, 24.1% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Wheatley School, with a diversity index of 77.3/100.
Its largest campus is Helensview High School, enrolling 119 students (40% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Hassolo School, at 6 students, a 20x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Helensview High School accounts for 39.8% of all Multnomah Esd student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Multnomah Esd-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.
Multnomah Esd school enrollment varies 20× across entities
Multnomah Esd school enrollment ranges from 6 students (lowest) to 119 students (highest), a spread of 113 students. That spread is wider than typical and predicts noticeable gaps in service quality between the highest and lowest areas. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Multnomah Esd student-counselor ratio is 97:1 — 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.
Multnomah Esd chronic absenteeism rate is 52.7% — 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.