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Prairie City, Oregon - 2 schools
An equity score of 28/100 ranks Prairie City Sd 4 #139 of 160 districts in Oregon (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $4,746 per pupil, Prairie City Sd 4 ranks #192 of 194 Oregon districts by per-pupil spending (Oregon districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
1,089
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$4,746
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Prairie City Sd 4 operates 2 public schools serving 1,089 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Oregon. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 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 Grant County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $4,746 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the bottom 20 of 194 Oregon districts by per-pupil spending. See how Oregon compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 4.3% local, 90.1% state, and 5.6% 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 28/100, ranked #139 of 160 in Oregon against a state average of 50, notably less 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 (8 AP courses district-wide), a 565.5:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 19.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 78.8% White, 12.2% Hispanic or Latino, 1.1% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Oregon Connections Academy, enrolling 884 students (78% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Prairie City School, at 247 students, a 4x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Oregon Connections Academy accounts for 78.2% of all Prairie City Sd 4 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Prairie City Sd 4 a distant remainder — means Prairie City Sd 4-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.
Prairie City Sd 4 student-counselor ratio is 566:1 — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 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.
Prairie City Sd 4 chronic absenteeism rate is 19.1% — 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 Prairie City Sd 4 is typically wider than the Prairie City Sd 4-aggregate figure suggests.