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Wallowa, Oregon - 3 schools
At $19,470 per pupil, Wallowa Sd 12 ranks #46 of 194 Oregon districts by per-pupil spending (Oregon districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
192
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$19,470
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Wallowa Sd 12 operates 3 public schools serving 192 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Oregon. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined, 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 Wallowa County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $19,470 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 19.2% local, 71.4% state, and 9.4% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
a 75.5:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 36.9% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 93.4% White, 3.8% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Wallowa High School, with a diversity index of 16.9/100.
Its largest campus is Wallowa Elementary School, enrolling 96 students (47% of the district's total enrollment).
Wallowa Elementary School accounts for 47.1% of all Wallowa Sd 12 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Wallowa Sd 12 a distant remainder — means Wallowa Sd 12-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.
Wallowa Sd 12 has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 63.1% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Eligibility here is approaching the 75% concentration-grant threshold; it does not yet unlock the extra funding tier but sits meaningfully above the baseline 50% majority mark. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Wallowa Sd 12 student-counselor ratio is 76:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
Wallowa Sd 12 chronic absenteeism rate is 36.9% — high (typically associated with higher-than-average disruption; recent CRDC data showed elevated rates persisting after pandemic-era schooling changes)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.