Oregon Education Statistics 2026: Schools, Enrollment & Spending
Oregon public K–12 enrollment fell to 539,644 students in fall 2025, down 5,444 from the prior year. The statewide system includes 197 school districts, while almost half of students attend districts enrolling 7,500 or more.
The latest enrollment count covers the 2025–26 school year. Staffing, charter, attendance, graduation and special education measures use the latest completed Oregon Department of Education reporting periods. Finance totals use audited years or the 2025–27 biennium and are labeled separately.
Oregon Education Snapshot
The cards combine the newest fall membership count with the latest completed staffing and biennial finance records.
Public School Enrollment, 2020–21 to 2025–26
Fall membership declined in every year of the six-year series.
Enrollment moved from 560,917 students in 2020–21 to 539,644 in 2025–26. The latest count is 21,273 lower than the first year shown.
Enrollment movement since 2020–21
- The six-year decline equals 3.8% of the 2020–21 enrollment base.
- The largest drop in the displayed post-2020 series occurred between 2020–21 and 2021–22, when enrollment fell by 7,905.
- The 2025–26 decline of 5,444 was larger than the 2024–25 decline of 2,336.
Oregon Schools, Enrollment and Finance Indicator Register
Each indicator retains its own reporting period so fall counts, school-year outcomes, cohort rates and biennial finance totals are not treated as one data year.
| Indicator | Value | Unit | Period | Reporting basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public K–12 enrollment | 539,644 | Students | 2025–26 | Fall membership |
| One-year enrollment change | −5,444 | Students | 2024–25 to 2025–26 | Fall-to-fall difference |
| Six-year enrollment change | −21,273 | Students | 2020–21 to 2025–26 | Fall-to-fall difference |
| School districts | 197 | Districts | 2024–25 profile | ODE district count |
| Education Service Districts | 19 | ESDs | Current directory | Regional service structure |
| Public charter schools | 128 | Schools | 2024–25 | ODE charter profile |
| Charter enrollment | 44,718 | Students | 2024–25 | Fall membership |
| Charter share of enrollment | 8.2% | Percent | 2024–25 | Charter students ÷ statewide enrollment |
| Teacher positions | 31,342.1 | FTE | 2024–25 | Statewide staff collection |
| All school employee positions | 81,862.5 | FTE | 2024–25 | Statewide staff collection |
| Elementary class-size median | 22 | Students per class | 2024–25 | Core classes counted in May |
| Middle school class-size median | 24 | Students per class | 2024–25 | Core classes counted in May |
| High school class-size median | 23 | Students per class | 2024–25 | Core classes counted in May |
| Students receiving special education services | 83,969 | Students | 2024–25 | IDEA, ages 5–21 |
| Special education share | 15.4% | Percent | 2024–25 | IDEA count ÷ enrollment |
| Multilingual learners with federal English Learner status | 68,038 | Students | 2024–25 | ESEA Title III collection |
| Regular attendance | 63.9% | Percent | 2024–25 | Present more than 90% of enrolled days |
| Ninth grade on-track rate | 86.6% | Percent | 2024–25 | Credit-based on-track measure |
| Four-year graduation rate | 81.8% | Percent | 2020–21 entry cohort | Graduated by end of 2023–24 |
| Five-year completion rate | 86.7% | Percent | 2019–20 entry cohort | Completed by end of 2023–24 |
| State School Fund appropriation | $11.32B | Nominal dollars | 2025–27 | Two-year legislative appropriation |
| Formula revenue, state plus local | $16.94B | Nominal dollars | 2025–27 | Two-year projected formula revenue |
| Student Investment Account reported spending | $551.5M | Nominal dollars | 2024–25 | Grantee-reported expenditures |
Reporting periods behind the headline values
- The newest student count is from fall 2025; most staffing and outcome values are from 2024–25.
- Graduation and completion measures follow entry cohorts rather than the school-year label used for attendance and staffing.
- The $11.32 billion and $16.94 billion finance values cover two fiscal years, not one school year.
Enrollment Movement and Student Composition
The fall count continued downward, while the composition of the enrolled population changed at different rates across student groups and grade levels.
Six-Year Fall Membership Series
Official statewide totals from 2020–21 through 2025–26.
| School year | Enrollment | Change (students) | Change (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020–21 | 560,917 | — | — |
| 2021–22 | 553,012 | −7,905 | −1.41% |
| 2022–23 | 552,380 | −632 | −0.11% |
| 2023–24 | 547,424 | −4,956 | −0.90% |
| 2024–25 | 545,088 | −2,336 | −0.43% |
| 2025–26 | 539,644 | −5,444 | −1.00% |
Enrollment by Grade, 2025–26
The latest fall count ranges from 34,586 kindergarten students to 47,481 twelfth-grade students.
| Grade | Enrollment | State share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 34,586 | 6.41% |
| Grade 1 | 36,067 | 6.68% |
| Grade 2 | 38,013 | 7.04% |
| Grade 3 | 39,822 | 7.38% |
| Grade 4 | 42,014 | 7.79% |
| Grade 5 | 41,427 | 7.68% |
| Grade 6 | 42,659 | 7.90% |
| Grade 7 | 42,381 | 7.85% |
| Grade 8 | 42,814 | 7.93% |
| Grade 9 | 43,801 | 8.12% |
| Grade 10 | 44,245 | 8.20% |
| Grade 11 | 44,334 | 8.22% |
| Grade 12 | 47,481 | 8.80% |
Grade distribution
- Kindergarten enrollment is 12,895 below twelfth-grade enrollment.
- Grades 9–12 account for 33.3% of the statewide fall count.
- The smaller early-grade cohorts point to continued enrollment pressure if later entry and migration do not offset the gap.
Race and Ethnicity Counts in Fall 2025
The comparison uses the same federal reporting categories in both fall membership files.
| Student group | 2024–25 | 2025–26 | Change | 2025–26 share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Indian / Alaska Native | 5,951 | 5,857 | −1.58% | 1.09% |
| Asian | 22,344 | 22,058 | −1.28% | 4.09% |
| Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander | 4,745 | 4,959 | +4.51% | 0.92% |
| Black / African American | 13,439 | 13,745 | +2.28% | 2.55% |
| Hispanic / Latino | 144,114 | 143,439 | −0.47% | 26.58% |
| White | 313,642 | 308,424 | −1.66% | 57.15% |
| Multi-Racial | 40,853 | 41,162 | +0.76% | 7.63% |
| All students | 545,088 | 539,644 | −1.00% | 100.00% |
Composition changed at different rates
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander enrollment recorded the largest percentage increase at 4.51%.
- Black / African American and Multi-Racial enrollment also rose while total enrollment declined.
- The White student count fell by 5,218, accounting for most of the net statewide reduction between the two fall counts.
District Scale and Enrollment Concentration
Oregon has many small districts, but statewide enrollment is concentrated in a much smaller number of large systems.
District Share Compared With Enrollment Share
District size bands use 2024–25 fall membership thresholds reported by ODE.
Small districts represent 54.1% of districts but 12.5% of students. Large districts represent 7.7% of districts and 49.7% of students.
District count and student count follow different distributions
- Very small and small districts together make up 64.8% of Oregon districts but enroll 12.6% of students.
- Medium and large districts enroll 87.4% of students.
- The pattern limits the value of a simple statewide district average because district enrollment sizes vary widely.
| District size | Enrollment band | District share | Enrollment share | Share gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Very small | 1–79 | 10.7% | 0.1% | −10.6 points |
| Small | 80–1,650 | 54.1% | 12.5% | −41.6 points |
| Medium | 1,651–7,499 | 27.6% | 37.7% | +10.1 points |
| Large | 7,500+ | 7.7% | 49.7% | +42.0 points |
Largest Oregon Districts by Fall 2025 Enrollment
The table is a concentration view of the 15 largest district records, not a full district ranking.
| Rank | District | 2024–25 | 2025–26 | Change (students) | Change (%) | State share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Portland SD 1J | 43,319 | 42,623 | −696 | −1.6% | 7.9% |
| 2 | Beaverton SD 48J | 37,826 | 36,959 | −867 | −2.3% | 6.8% |
| 3 | Salem-Keizer SD 24J | 37,970 | 36,837 | −1,133 | −3.0% | 6.8% |
| 4 | Hillsboro SD 1J | 18,737 | 18,521 | −216 | −1.2% | 3.4% |
| 5 | North Clackamas SD 12 | 16,922 | 16,864 | −58 | −0.3% | 3.1% |
| 6 | Bend-LaPine Administrative SD 1 | 16,874 | 16,530 | −344 | −2.0% | 3.1% |
| 7 | Eugene SD 4J | 15,880 | 15,666 | −214 | −1.3% | 2.9% |
| 8 | Medford SD 549C | 13,786 | 13,602 | −184 | −1.3% | 2.5% |
| 9 | Gresham-Barlow SD 10J | 11,463 | 11,357 | −106 | −0.9% | 2.1% |
| 10 | Tigard-Tualatin SD 23J | 11,455 | 11,041 | −414 | −3.6% | 2.0% |
| 11 | Reynolds SD 7 | 9,700 | 9,610 | −90 | −0.9% | 1.8% |
| 12 | Springfield SD 19 | 9,216 | 8,929 | −287 | −3.1% | 1.7% |
| 13 | West Linn-Wilsonville SD 3J | 8,872 | 8,617 | −255 | −2.9% | 1.6% |
| 14 | David Douglas SD 40 | 8,728 | 8,568 | −160 | −1.8% | 1.6% |
| 15 | Greater Albany Public SD 8J | 8,771 | 8,422 | −349 | −4.0% | 1.6% |
Enrollment is concentrated in a short district list
- Portland, Beaverton and Salem-Keizer together enroll 21.6% of Oregon public K–12 students.
- The 15 districts shown account for 48.9% of fall 2025 enrollment.
- All 15 reported lower enrollment than one year earlier; Greater Albany posted the largest percentage decline in this group at 4.0%.
Charter Schools, Class Size and Staffing
Charter enrollment, virtual delivery and staffing measures describe different parts of Oregon’s public school capacity.
Charter and Virtual Enrollment Profile
| Indicator | Value | Period |
|---|---|---|
| Public charter schools | 128 | 2024–25 |
| Charter enrollment | 44,718 | 2024–25 |
| Charter share of public enrollment | 8.2% | 2024–25 |
| Fully or primarily virtual charter schools | 20 | 2024–25 |
| Virtual share of charter schools | 15.6% | 2024–25 |
| Virtual share of charter enrollment | More than 42% | 2024–25 |
| Average virtual charter enrollment | 945 | 2024–25 |
| Average non-virtual charter enrollment | 239 | 2024–25 |
Virtual schools hold a larger enrollment share than school-count share
- Virtual charters represented 15.6% of charter schools but more than 42% of charter enrollment.
- Average virtual charter enrollment was almost four times the non-virtual charter average.
Class-Size Medians
| School type | Median class size | Count basis |
|---|---|---|
| All school types | 23 | Core classes, May 2025 |
| Elementary | 22 | Core classes, May 2025 |
| Middle | 24 | Core classes, May 2025 |
| High | 23 | Core classes, May 2025 |
| Combined | 12 | Core classes, May 2025 |
Class size is measured at the class level and is not the same as a student-to-teacher ratio.
Oregon School Employee FTE, 2023–24 and 2024–25
FTE counts measure positions rather than individual people.
| Staff group | 2023–24 FTE | 2024–25 FTE | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Teachers | 31,600.6 | 31,342.1 | −0.8% |
| Educational assistants | 12,578.3 | 13,032.3 | +3.6% |
| District administrators | 569.9 | 580.6 | +1.9% |
| School administrators | 2,038.4 | 2,038.5 | 0.0% |
| School counselors | 1,678.9 | 1,698.8 | +1.2% |
| Licensed library and media staff | 178.2 | 186.7 | +4.8% |
| Library and media support | 686.8 | 660.3 | −3.9% |
| Psychologists | 430.2 | 457.4 | +6.3% |
| Support staff | 29,211.1 | 29,576.5 | +1.3% |
| Special education specialists | 2,251.0 | 2,289.5 | +1.7% |
| Total | 81,223.3 | 81,862.5 | +0.8% |
Staffing changes were not uniform
- Total employee FTE rose by 0.8% while teacher FTE fell by 0.8%.
- Psychologist FTE recorded the largest percentage gain among the listed groups at 6.3%.
- Library and media support FTE recorded the largest percentage decline at 3.9%.
State Funding, Operating Revenue and Spending
Oregon reports school finance through biennial formula funding, annual operating revenue and expenditure records, and program-specific grants. These measures are kept separate.
State and Local Formula Revenue by Biennium
Amounts are nominal billions distributed through Oregon’s equalization formula.
Projected formula revenue reaches $16.94 billion in 2025–27, including $11.32 billion in state resources and $5.62 billion in local resources.
Formula revenue grew while the student count declined
- Total formula revenue rises by $4.71 billion between 2017–19 and 2025–27 in nominal terms.
- The state component represents about 66.8% of projected 2025–27 formula revenue.
- The chart does not include federal revenue or state and local funds distributed outside the equalization formula.
| Biennium | Local | State | Total | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017–19 | $4.03B | $8.20B | $12.23B | Reported |
| 2019–21 | $4.37B | $9.00B | $13.37B | Reported |
| 2021–23 | $4.68B | $9.30B | $14.03B | Reported |
| 2023–25 | $5.04B | $10.20B | $15.24B | Projected in 2024–25 report |
| 2025–27 | $5.62B | $11.32B | $16.94B | Projected formula revenue |
Operating Revenue Mix, 2023–24
| Revenue source | Share | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| State | 56.3% | District and ESD audits |
| Local | 31.2% | District and ESD audits |
| Federal | 11.1% | District and ESD audits |
| Intermediate | 1.4% | District and ESD audits |
The annual operating revenue mix includes funds outside the state equalization formula.
Quality Education Model Comparison, 2025–27
| Measure | Amount | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| QEM modeled requirement | $13.526B | State School Fund plus Student Success Act transfer |
| QEM current-service forecast | $11.275B | Forecast used in 2024 QEM report |
| Modeled funding difference | $2.252B | Modeled requirement minus forecast |
| Legislative State School Fund appropriation | $11.32B | Includes $839.6M Student Success Act transfer |
The enacted appropriation and the earlier QEM current-service forecast are separate reporting lines produced at different stages.
Operating Expenditures per Student by Function
The category values come from district and ESD audits and exclude students in state-run programs because those expenditures are not included.
| Spending function | 2021–22 | 2022–23 | 2023–24 | 2023–24 share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Direct classroom | $9,179 | $9,696 | $10,184 | 53.5% |
| Classroom support | $3,518 | $4,028 | $4,240 | 22.3% |
| Building support | $3,024 | $3,299 | $3,555 | 18.7% |
| Central support | $853 | $965 | $1,055 | 5.5% |
| Reported total row | $16,574 | $17,988 | $17,988 | 100% |
| Calculated component sum | $16,574 | $17,988 | $19,034 | 100% |
The 2023–24 component values do not reconcile with the printed total
- The four published 2023–24 categories sum to $19,034 per student.
- The ODE report card prints $17,988 in the 2023–24 total row, the same figure shown for 2022–23.
- The component values and their published percentage shares align with the $19,034 calculated sum, so the printed total is retained only as a disclosed source value.
Student Investment Account Spending by Allowable Use
Grantee-reported 2024–25 expenditures total $551.5 million.
Health and Safety, Well-Rounded Education and Reduced Class Size account for 88.3% of reported SIA spending.
| Allowable use | Expenditure | Share | Reporting note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health and Safety | $184,894,088 | 33.5% | Reported category |
| Well-Rounded Education | $175,426,962 | 31.8% | Reported category |
| Reduced Class Size | $127,108,327 | 23.0% | Reported category |
| Increased Instructional Time | $24,463,218 | 4.4% | Reported category |
| Ongoing Community Engagement | $24,440,384 | 4.4% | Reported category |
| Administrative | $11,435,498 | 2.1% | Indirect costs and grant administration |
| Uncategorized | $3,726,780 | 0.7% | Missing grantee category data at report date |
SIA spending was concentrated in three uses
- Health and Safety received the largest amount at $184.9 million.
- Health and Safety and Well-Rounded Education together account for 65.3% of reported spending.
- Salaries and benefits represented $473.3 million, or 85.8% of all SIA spending, when expenditures are classified by expense type rather than allowable use.
- Grantees reported specific expenditures equal to 98.6% of claimed funds.
Student Needs, Attendance and Completion
Enrollment counts, service participation and outcome measures move on different reporting schedules. The tables preserve those distinctions.
Special Education Enrollment Trend
| School year | IDEA students | Enrollment share | Total enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020–21 | 79,782 | 14.2% | 560,917 |
| 2021–22 | 78,716 | 14.2% | 553,012 |
| 2022–23 | 79,998 | 14.5% | 552,380 |
| 2023–24 | 82,196 | 15.0% | 547,424 |
| 2024–25 | 83,969 | 15.4% | 545,088 |
Service participation rose while total enrollment fell
- The IDEA count increased by 4,187 students, or 5.2%, from 2020–21 to 2024–25.
- Total enrollment fell by 2.8% over the same five reported years.
- The special education share rose from 14.2% to 15.4%.
Attendance and Secondary Completion Measures
| Measure | Rate | Period | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regular attendance | 63.9% | 2024–25 | Present more than 90% of enrolled days |
| Ninth grade on track | 86.6% | 2024–25 | Credit-based state measure |
| Four-year graduation | 81.8% | 2020–21 entry cohort | Graduated by end of 2023–24 |
| Five-year completion | 86.7% | 2019–20 entry cohort | Completed by end of 2023–24 |
| High school dropout | 3.2% | 2023–24 | One-year grades 9–12 rate |
Outcome measures answer different questions
- The ninth-grade on-track rate is an early secondary indicator and cannot be read as a graduation rate.
- The five-year completion rate includes a broader time window than the four-year graduation rate.
- The dropout rate is a one-year event measure and does not follow a fixed entering cohort.
What Oregon’s 2026 Education Data Shows
The strongest statewide patterns come from the interaction of enrollment scale, district structure, student services and finance reporting periods.
Enrollment pressure extends beyond one year
Fall membership is lower in every year shown after 2020–21. The 2025–26 count also shows a wider annual decline than the previous year, while smaller kindergarten and early-grade cohorts remain below upper-grade cohorts.
District count does not describe student concentration
Most districts fall below 1,651 students, yet most students are enrolled in medium or large districts. Statewide averages therefore combine systems with very different enrollment bases, transportation patterns and fixed operating obligations.
Student service demand moved differently from total enrollment
The IDEA student count rose over the five-year completed series even as statewide enrollment declined. Multilingual learner participation also reached 68,038 students in 2024–25, equal to 12.6% of the reported K–12 population.
Finance totals use more than one measurement clock
The State School Fund is a two-year appropriation, formula revenue combines state and local projections, annual operating revenue comes from audits, and SIA expenditures come from grantee reports. These values describe related but non-interchangeable funding measures.
Data Sources and Measurement
Oregon Department of Education, Fall Membership Report 2025–26. The statewide count is taken on the first weekday in October and includes public K–12 membership reported through ODE collections.
Oregon Department of Education, Oregon Statewide Report Card 2024–25. The report combines school-year, audit, cohort and biennial measures.
ODE publishes school, district and statewide membership files on the Student Enrollment Reports page. The 2025–26 file supplies the latest count and district comparison used here.
State and local formula revenue follows ODE’s State School Fund reporting and the biennial totals reproduced in the statewide report card. Payment documentation is maintained on the School District and ESD Payment Statements page.
The modeled 2025–27 requirement and forecast difference come from the 2024 Quality Education Model report. The model estimates resources associated with a specified service level; it is not a district accounting deficit.
Program expenditures come from ODE’s 2026 Student Investment Account Legislative Report, which covers grantee spending reported for 2024–25 and extracted in January 2026.
Student and district counts are displayed as whole numbers. FTE values retain one decimal place. Percentages are rounded to one or two decimals, and biennial dollar totals are displayed in billions. SIA category dollars are retained as reported.
Fall membership is not average daily membership or weighted ADMw. Class size is a median across reported core classes, not a student-to-teacher ratio. The largest-district table is a 15-district concentration module rather than a full district list.
The year in the title identifies the publication cycle. It does not imply that every official source reports a 2026 observation. Latest available periods are shown beside every value.
Academic-year enrollment and staffing values should not be divided directly into a two-year biennial appropriation. Projected 2025–27 formula revenue should not be treated as a final audited total. The 2023–24 operating expenditure table in the ODE report card also contains a source inconsistency: its four category values sum to $19,034 per student, while the printed total row shows $17,988. Both the printed row and the calculated component sum are disclosed above rather than silently selecting one.