At $52,750 per pupil, South Harney Sd 33 ranks #11 of 196 Oregon districts by per-pupil spending (Oregon districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
South Harney Sd 33 operates 1 public schools serving 8 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Oregon. The school portfolio breaks down into 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 Harney County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $52,750 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 12.0% local, 81.6% state, and 6.5% 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 14.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 85.7% White, 14.3% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Fields Elementary School, enrolling 7 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses fell 12.5% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (8 to 7 students), and the student-teacher ratio held roughly steady, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $557,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 37.9% went to instruction, 37.9% to support services, and 24.2% to capital outlay, a capital-heavy year, consistent with active construction, renovation, or major equipment purchases. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Fields Elementary School accounts for 87.5% of all South Harney Sd 33 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of South Harney Sd 33 a distant remainder — means South Harney Sd 33-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: elementary. 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.
South Harney Sd 33 chronic absenteeism rate is 14.3% — low (typically associated with lower-than-average attendance disruption; districts in this range often have attendance interventions, robust transportation, or smaller catchments that reduce barriers)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.