At $49,750 per pupil, Plush Sd 18 ranks #14 of 196 Oregon districts by per-pupil spending (Oregon districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Plush Sd 18 operates 1 public schools serving 8 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 Lake County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $49,750 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 20 of 196 Oregon districts by per-pupil spending. See how Oregon compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 18.6% local, 74.6% state, and 6.8% 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 25.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 50.0% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Plush Elementary School, enrolling 4 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 14.3% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (7 to 8 students), per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $458,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 44.5% went to instruction, 42.4% to support services, and 3.7% 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.
Plush Elementary School accounts for 50.0% of all Plush Sd 18 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Plush Sd 18 a distant remainder — means Plush Sd 18-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.
Plush Sd 18 chronic absenteeism rate is 25.0% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
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 Variation between sub-units within Plush Sd 18 is typically wider than the Plush Sd 18-aggregate figure suggests.