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Public schools in Oregon

539,417 pupils attended 1,291 public schools in Oregon in 2024–25, in 223 school districts. Its districts spent $17,108 per pupil in fiscal year 2023, against $16,398 nationally.

Oregon, 2024–25

539.4 thousand
Pupils
539,417
1.1% of the nation's public school pupils.
1,291
Public schools
Operational public schools in NCES’s 2024–25 directory.
18.1
Pupils per teacher
Over the 1,273 schools that report both counts; nationally 15.2.
128
Charter schools
8.3% of pupils.
$17,108
Spending per pupil
Current spending over fall membership, fiscal year 2023.

Oregon over time

Oregon's public school enrollment excluding pre-kindergarten fell by 37,573 from its peak in 2019–⁠20 to 2024–⁠25

Public school membership in Oregon each fall, 2014–⁠15 to 2024–⁠25: all grades, and excluding pre-kindergarten, which is the line the title reads.

Membership is the October 1 count of pupils on a school’s rolls, as the state reported it to NCES.

Where a year’s pre-kindergarten is not reported, its total is lower than NCES’s published one, which adds an estimate; the line excluding pre-kindergarten is unaffected.

National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education — NCES Common Core of Data — public school membership by state, 2014–15 onwards

The figures behind this chart
Oregon's public school enrollment excluding pre-kindergarten fell by 37,573 from its peak in 2019–20 to 2024–25. Public school membership in Oregon each fall, 2014–15 to 2024–25: all grades, and excluding pre-kindergarten, which is the line the title reads.
School yearAll gradesExcluding pre-kindergartenPre-kindergarten
2014–⁠15601,318570,85730,461
2015–⁠16576,407576,407Not reported
2016–⁠17578,947578,947Not reported
2017–⁠18608,014580,68427,330
2018–⁠19609,507581,73027,777
2019–⁠20610,648582,66127,987
2020–⁠21560,917560,917Not reported
2021–⁠22553,012553,012Not reported
2022–⁠23552,380552,380Not reported
2023–⁠24547,424547,424Not reported
2024–⁠25545,088545,088Not reported

Oregon's school districts spent $17,108 per pupil in fiscal year 2023, against $8,196 in 2005, in each year's dollars

Current spending per pupil in Oregon, fiscal years 2005 to 2023: current spending over fall membership, summed over every district. In each year’s dollars, not adjusted for inflation.

Not adjusted for inflation: a dollar in 2005 bought more than a dollar in 2023, and this chart does not say how much more.

Each year is the release NCES has published for it: provisional for most, final for fiscal years 2019 to 2022. A final release revises the provisional one by well under 1% nationally.

National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education — NCES School District Finance Survey (F-33) — every fiscal year in the current format

The figures behind this chart
Oregon's school districts spent $17,108 per pupil in fiscal year 2023, against $8,196 in 2005, in each year's dollars. Current spending per pupil in Oregon, fiscal years 2005 to 2023: current spending over fall membership, summed over every district. In each year’s dollars, not adjusted for inflation.
Fiscal yearPer pupilPupilsRelease
FY2005$8,196550,502Provisional
FY2006$8,646556,185Provisional
FY2007$9,090559,643Provisional
FY2008$9,722562,632Provisional
FY2009$9,827560,726Provisional
FY2010$9,603561,459Provisional
FY2011$9,659560,969Provisional
FY2012$9,466567,973Provisional
FY2013$9,163587,407Provisional
FY2014$9,760577,282Provisional
FY2015$10,437570,633Provisional
FY2016$10,802576,369Provisional
FY2017$11,225578,903Provisional
FY2018$11,878580,643Provisional
FY2019$12,432581,687Final
FY2020$12,810582,616Final
FY2021$13,828560,850Final
FY2022$15,706552,951Final
FY2023$17,108552,314Provisional

Where Oregon’s districts got their money, fiscal year 2023

Revenue of all 222 districts in NCES’s finance file, by source. Nationally, 12.6% came from federal sources.

State sources gave Oregon's school districts 52.9% of their revenue in fiscal year 2023

Revenue of Oregon's public school districts by source, fiscal year 2023, as a share of their total revenue.

National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education — NCES School District Finance Survey (F-33) — newest fiscal year

The figures behind this chart
State sources gave Oregon's school districts 52.9% of their revenue in fiscal year 2023. Revenue of Oregon's public school districts by source, fiscal year 2023, as a share of their total revenue.
SourceRevenueShare of revenue
Federal$1.1 billion9.7%
State$6.2 billion52.9%
Local$4.3 billion37.4%

The largest districts in Oregon

By fall membership in 2024–25. Spending per pupil is the same district’s fiscal year 2023 figure from NCES’s finance file, where it reports one.

The 10 largest public school districts in Oregon, 2024–25
DistrictPupilsSchoolsPupils per teacherSpending per pupil, fiscal year 2023
Portland SD 1J43,3578616.0$20,014
Salem-Keizer SD 24J37,9826519.6$16,685
Beaverton SD 48J37,8915617.3$15,827
Hillsboro SD 1J18,7813719.2$16,743
North Clackamas SD 1216,9823119.3$15,025
Bend-LaPine Administrative SD 116,8783520.0$14,077
Eugene SD 4J15,9433617.1$16,415
Medford SD 549C13,8002519.5$12,968
Gresham-Barlow SD 10J11,4522119.9$15,093
Tigard-Tualatin SD 23J11,4331917.7$17,561

City, suburb, town and rural schools in Oregon

36.9% of Oregon's public school pupils attended city schools in 2024–⁠25

Pupils in Oregon's operational public schools by the kind of place each school is in, 2024–⁠25: NCES's twelve locales grouped into city, suburb, town and rural.

National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education — NCES Common Core of Data — public schools, newest full school year

The figures behind this chart
36.9% of Oregon's public school pupils attended city schools in 2024–25. Pupils in Oregon's operational public schools by the kind of place each school is in, 2024–25: NCES's twelve locales grouped into city, suburb, town and rural.
LocaleSchoolsShare of schoolsPupilsShare of pupils
City39730.8%199,09436.9%
Suburb23918.5%123,66922.9%
Town28121.8%120,00422.2%
Rural37429.0%96,65017.9%

Colleges in Oregon that take federal student aid

66 colleges in Oregon are in NCES’s IPEDS universe for 2025–26: 26 public, 18 private nonprofit and 22 private for-profit. They enrolled 294,182 students over twelve months and awarded 21,650 bachelor’s degrees.

Oregon elsewhere on the Factbook

  • Reported crimeCrime and justice

    Offenses reported to police by type, the trend, and the reporting coverage.

  • Most dangerous cities in OregonCrime and justice

    What each agency serving 25,000 or more reported, ranked. Agency populations overlap, so these do not add up to the state.

  • Prison populationCrime and justice

    People held under the state’s correctional authority, and the imprisonment rate. A different publisher counting a different thing.

  • Arrests by race, sex and ageCrime and justice

    Arrests as the FBI’s participating agencies reported them, with what the figures can and cannot support at the top.

  • Hate crimeCrime and justice

    Incidents reported to the FBI by bias motivation, as counts — the collection publishes no participation share, so there is no rate to compare states on.

  • Federal obligationsFederal spending

    What federal agencies obligated against a place of performance in the state, per resident and by agency.

  • Registered nonprofitsNonprofits

    How many organizations the IRS lists in the state, what they report as revenue, and which kinds of work they do.

  • Payments to doctorsHealth

    What drug and device companies reported paying doctors with a practice address in the state, and the largest recipients.

  • Immigration courtsImmigration and the border

    The EOIR courts sitting in the state, what they completed and still have pending, and how far apart their asylum grant rates are. The courts, not the state’s residents: a detention court hears cases from far outside it.

  • Farm program paymentsFarm subsidies

    What the Farm Service Agency paid through the state’s county offices, by program and by recipient. The offices that administered the payments, not a count of farms: a recipient addressed elsewhere is counted where they were paid.

  • Paycheck Protection Program loansPPP loans

    The PPP loans SBA guaranteed to businesses operating in the state, by county, with how many carry a forgiveness amount and how many were charged off. Loans, not businesses: a business with two draws is two loans.

  • The Oregon Factbook entryAcross the Factbook

    Every measure the Factbook publishes for this state in one place, each with where it ranks among the others and the record it came from.

The immigration link above is EOIR’s courts, which sit in this state. CBP’s encounters are not by state and will not be: its sectors and field offices are areas of responsibility rather than a geography, and assigning them to states would be a claim the data does not make. Immigration and the border.

Sources

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), 2024–25; “School District Finance Survey (F-33),” fiscal year 2023; Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS).

Data retrieved