Elementary school (grades K-5) · Fields, OR

Fields Elementary School

Federal NCES profile for Fields Elementary School, including enrollment, faculty, free-lunch eligibility, demographics, and resource indicators - Resource Investment Index 60/100.

2024-25 NCES dataElementary school (grades K-5)NCES 410502001383
0/100100/10060/100
👥 S:T ratio
86
🌟 Gifted program
30
📋 Attendance
64
Scored 0–100 from federal NCES and CRDC indicators, resource allocation, not test scores. Full methodology →

The verdict

Fields Elementary School earns 60/100 on the Resource Investment Index, with class sizes smaller than 99% of Oregon schools. It is also one of the smallest schools in Oregon.

60
Resource Index · Higher
3.5:1
small classes for Oregon
7
students enrolled

Fields Elementary School has class sizes smaller than 99% of Oregon schools. Computed live against every Oregon school reporting to NCES.

School address

Enrollment

7

Oregon · 2024-25 NCES data

Teachers (FTE)

2.0

Federal CCD staff survey

Students per teacher

3.5:1

vs 17.6:1 Oregon avg

-80% vs state

Student-teacher ratio in context

How Fields Elementary School compares with Oregon and U.S. medians

Smaller classes than state median
0:135:13.5:1

Source: NCES Common Core of Data As of 2024-25 federal staff survey Total enrollment ÷ full-time-equivalent classroom teachers

What stands out at Fields Elementary School

Small campus with unusually lean teacher staffing

Fields Elementary School sits near the smaller end of the Oregon enrollment distribution while also reporting a lower student-teacher ratio than most state schools. That pairing is consistent with a compact, teacher-dense setting, though small scale can limit the number of specialized courses or support roles a campus can sustain. The program and staffing sections below show whether the lean ratio extends beyond classroom teachers into broader student services.

No single support indicator dominates

Fields Elementary School's available federal support indicators do not reveal an extreme in advanced-course access, specialist staffing, chronic absence, or IDEA enrollment. The most responsible reading is therefore component by component rather than a sweeping verdict: current counseling availability, health support, program schedules, and attendance policy still warrant direct confirmation. Missing or middle-range federal fields are not evidence that services are either strong or weak.

Fields Elementary School is a small elementary school in Fields, Oregon, enrolling 7 students.

Classes run notably small here: at 3.5:1, Fields Elementary School is leaner than roughly 99% of Oregon schools and 80% under the state's 17.6:1 norm, more adult attention per pupil than most peers.

This is a small campus: fewer students than 98% of Oregon schools, with 7 enrolled.

Its Resource Investment Index outscores 97% of the 1,273 Oregon schools with a score on record, a top-tier result on this measure.

Its student body is predominantly White (86% of enrollment) (diversity index 25/100).

14.3% of students were chronically absent in the 2021-22 collection, in line with the post-pandemic national range.

The surrounding South Harney Sd 33 spends $43,200 per pupil, 139% above the Oregon average, a better-resourced district than most.

South Harney Sd 33 operates only this one school, so Fields Elementary School has no district-mates to compare against locally. At 7 students, it is also a small operation, on the smaller end of Oregon's single-school districts.

Sourced from NCES CCD, CRDC, and F-33 (federal records, not a quality verdict). How we source and compute this.

Source: National Center for Education Statistics Common Core of Data + CRDC + F-33 · 2024-25

How Fields Elementary School compares

Fields Elementary School on the metrics families compare, against Oregon and U.S. means.

Metric This school vs Oregon Oregon avg U.S. avg
Students per teacher 3.5:1 ▼ 80% 17.6:1 15.7:1
Enrollment 7 top 98% - -

Source: NCES Common Core of Data School-level CCD + state/national means from Public School Universe · 2024-25

3.5:1
Leaner classes than 99% of US schools, among the more generously staffed nationally.
7
Bigger than 1% of US schools by enrollment, a small campus.

Equity indicators (what these measure)

Staffing depth
3.5:1
students per teacher - 80% below state mean
Top 1% in Oregon - lower ratio than 99% of state schools
Well under the widely cited 15:1 individualized-attention benchmark, among the leaner class loads nationally.
Engagement
14.3%
chronically absent (missed 10%+ of school days)
In the 10-15% range, above the pre-pandemic national baseline but within the broader post-pandemic picture.
Funding equity
$43,200
per pupil, district-wide - above Oregon avg of $18,086
Well above the U.S. public-school average, reflecting substantially higher local or state investment per enrolled student.
Support staff
Counselors0.0 FTE
Student-support staffing from the Civil Rights Data Collection.
Discipline context
0
in-school suspensions + 0 out-of-school
Suspension rate: 0.0 per 100 students. Combined in-school and out-of-school rate: 0.0 per 100 students. Reported via the Civil Rights Data Collection.

Student demographics

White 85.7%
Hispanic or Latino 14.3%

Largest group: White at 85.7% of enrollment.

Student-body diversity index 24.5/100

Simpson diversity index - at 24.5, Fields Elementary School is less mixed than the Oregon school average of 47.1.

Programs

Funding & spending

District-wide per-pupil expenditure for South Harney Sd 33, which includes Fields Elementary School.

$43,200
Per student
+139%
vs Oregon
Avg $18,086
+160%
vs U.S.
Avg $16,593
Revenue mix
Local 12.0%
State 81.6%
Federal 6.5%

Source: NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey District-level finance · FY 2021-22 Per-pupil expenditure reflects the district-wide average. Individual school budgets are not reported at the federal level.

Similar elementary schools statewide

Matched by enrollment size and by staffing ratio across all of Oregon, not just this city - a different peer set than the local comparisons above.

Next steps

Verify locally before acting on Fields Elementary School's federal record.

Federal record (CCD 2024-25, CRDC 2021-22) - PlainSchools assigns no subjective rating; the composite quality score is a transparent, reproducible index computed from this cited federal data.

Frequently asked questions about Fields Elementary School

How many students attend Fields Elementary School?

Fields Elementary School has 7 students enrolled. It is an elementary school in Fields, OR.

What is the student-teacher ratio at Fields Elementary School?

The student-teacher ratio at Fields Elementary School is 3.5:1, which is 80% lower than the Oregon average of 17.6:1 and 78% lower than the national average of 15.7:1. Lower ratios generally mean more individual attention per student.

What is the racial and ethnic makeup of Fields Elementary School?

The largest demographic group at Fields Elementary School is White at 85.7% of enrollment, in Fields, OR.

What is the Resource Investment Index for Fields Elementary School?

Fields Elementary School has a Resource Investment Index of 60/100 (higher reported resources relative to schools nationally) based on 3 factors: student-teacher ratio, gifted-program reporting, chronic absenteeism. Not a test-score or academic measure (national median ~41/100, see methodology).

What other schools are in South Harney Sd 33?

None reported; South Harney Sd 33 operates only Fields Elementary School as a public school district in NCES's records.

Source: National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) CCD + Public School Universe (2024-25), CRDC (2021-22), F-33 District Finance Survey (FY 2021-22) · 2024-25 Data as of the 2024-25 school year. Coverage from U.S. Department of Education NCES Common Core of Data. Varies by entity type; administrative districts and certain charter networks may report only a subset of fields.

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