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Vernonia, Oregon - 4 schools
An equity score of 55/100 ranks Vernonia Sd 47j #58 of 160 districts in Oregon (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $17,653 per pupil, Vernonia Sd 47j ranks #63 of 194 Oregon districts by per-pupil spending (Oregon districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
581
Total Enrollment
4
Schools
$17,653
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Vernonia Sd 47j operates 4 public schools serving 581 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Oregon. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 elementary, 1 high, 1 middle 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 Columbia County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $17,653 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 194 Oregon districts by per-pupil spending. See how Oregon compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 40.6% local, 47.2% state, and 12.2% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one. The district's equity score is 55/100, ranked #58 of 160 in Oregon against a state average of 50, in line with the typical spread seen across the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 4 schools offering Advanced Placement (2 AP courses district-wide), a 280:1 student-counselor ratio, somewhat above the 250:1 ASCA recommendation, and 47.9% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 84.4% White, 7.2% Hispanic or Latino, 0.4% Asian across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Vernonia Elementary School, with a diversity index of 36.6/100.
Its largest campus is Vernonia Elementary School, enrolling 206 students (37% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Mist Elementary School, at 31 students, a 7x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Vernonia Elementary School accounts for 35.5% of all Vernonia Sd 47j student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Vernonia Sd 47j-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: elementary. 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.
Vernonia Sd 47j school enrollment varies 6.6× across entities
Vernonia Sd 47j school enrollment ranges from 31 students (lowest) to 206 students (highest), a spread of 175 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Vernonia Sd 47j student-counselor ratio is 280:1 — near the typical range (US average ~408) — within the typical range for U.S. public districts
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 Variation between sub-units within Vernonia Sd 47j is typically wider than the Vernonia Sd 47j-aggregate figure suggests.
Vernonia Sd 47j chronic absenteeism rate is 47.9% — 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.