At $27,065 per pupil, Orondo School District ranks #42 of 311 Washington districts by per-pupil spending (Washington districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Orondo School District operates 1 public schools serving 139 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Washington. 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 Douglas County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $27,065 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 311 Washington districts by per-pupil spending. See how Washington compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 27.5% local, 48.9% state, and 23.5% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
and 66.9% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 83.1% Hispanic or Latino, 16.9% White across the district's schools.
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses fell 5.8% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (139 to 131 students), and the student-teacher ratio widened by 1.0 students per teacher despite the decline, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $4,886,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 39.3% went to instruction, 35.2% to support services, and 13% 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.
Orondo Elementary and Middle School accounts for 89.2% of all Orondo School District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Orondo School District a distant remainder — means Orondo School District-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.
Orondo School District reports 68.3% free-lunch eligibility
The reported share sits between 62.5% and 75%, above a simple majority but below the highest descriptive band used here. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Orondo School District chronic absenteeism rate is 66.9% — 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.