An equity score of 41/100 ranks Santiam Canyon Sd 129j #105 of 160 districts in Oregon (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $4,458 per pupil, Santiam Canyon Sd 129j ranks #194 of 196 Oregon districts by per-pupil spending (Oregon districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
2,617
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$4,458
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Santiam Canyon Sd 129j operates 3 public schools serving 2,617 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Oregon. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 combined, 1 elementary 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 Linn County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $4,458 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the bottom 20 of 196 Oregon districts by per-pupil spending. See how Oregon compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 12.3% local, 83.1% state, and 4.6% 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 41/100, ranked #105 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 2 of 3 schools offering Advanced Placement (7 AP courses district-wide), a 207.2:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 43.2% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 73.2% White, 13.6% Hispanic or Latino, 1.5% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Oregon Charter Academy, with a diversity index of 53.3/100.
Its largest campus is Oregon Charter Academy, enrolling 2,345 students (81% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Santiam Elementary School, at 249 students, a 9x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 2.3% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (2,617 to 2,678 students), while the student-teacher ratio widened by 2.6 students per teacher, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $38,823,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 17.5% went to instruction, 11.4% to support services, and 5.4% 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.
Oregon Charter Academy accounts for 80.5% of all Santiam Canyon Sd 129j student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Santiam Canyon Sd 129j a distant remainder — means Santiam Canyon Sd 129j-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.
Santiam Canyon Sd 129j school enrollment varies 9.4× across entities
Santiam Canyon Sd 129j school enrollment ranges from 249 students (lowest) to 2,345 students (highest), a spread of 2,096 students. That spread reflects typical mixed-portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
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.
Santiam Canyon Sd 129j student-counselor ratio is 207:1 — low (typically associated with meeting or exceeding the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommended 250:1 benchmark, which correlates with stronger college and career counseling capacity)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
Santiam Canyon Sd 129j chronic absenteeism rate is 43.2% — 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.