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Athena-Weston SD 29RJ

Athena, Oregon · Public School District · Open

Key statistics

491
Students enrolled
3
Public schools
42
Classroom teachers (FTE)
11.7:1
Students per teacher

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data. School year: 2024-25.

Students

By grade

  • Kindergarten 22
  • Grade 1 32
  • Grade 2 26
  • Grade 3 45
  • Grade 4 32
  • Grade 5 34
  • Grade 6 43
  • Grade 7 31
  • Grade 8 49
  • Grade 9 34
  • Grade 10 45
  • Grade 11 53
  • Grade 12 45

By race/ethnicity

  • White 71%
  • Hispanic/Latino 13%
  • Two or more races 9%
  • American Indian or Alaska Native 6%
  • Asian <1%
  • Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander <1%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (fall membership), school year 2024-25. Race/ethnicity as reported by the state.

Free and reduced-price lunch

74% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 360 of 484 students in the district's schools
  • Free lunch 74%
  • Reduced-price lunch 0%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, school year 2024-25. Eligibility as reported by the state. Schools that serve free meals to every student may count all of them as eligible, so figures are not comparable from state to state.

Spending and revenue

$20,309 spent per student on day-to-day operations Oregon median: $18,018 per student

Spending per student

  • Instruction $13,253
  • Support services $6,340
  • Other (food service, etc.) $716

Where the money comes from

  • Local 24%
  • State 61%
  • Federal 14%

Total revenue $12.0 milliontotal spending $12.0 million

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, School District Finance Survey (F-33), school year 2023-24. Day-to-day spending is NCES's current expenditures: it leaves out construction, equipment, debt and payments to charter or private schools. Per student is per fall enrollment of that year.

District details

Grades served

PK to 12

Locale (NCES)

Rural: Distant

Total staff (FTE)

76

District office

375 S 5th St, Athena OR 97813

County

Umatilla County

Official website

NCES District ID

4101660

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About Athena-Weston SD 29RJ

Description provided by the district or community — not part of the NCES dataset.

The Athena-Weston School District is a small, rural school district in Eastern Oregon. The towns of Athena and Weston lie at the foothills of the Blue Mountains between Walla Walla, Washington and Pendleton, Oregon. Wheat and pea farming, as well as canneries provide many of the jobs in the area. Parents of the students work in agriculture or they commute to Pendleton or Walla Walla for various other employment opportunities. Many students work in jobs related to agriculture during the summer months and are not employed during the school year. The student population is stable with an ethnic population of 80% Caucasian, 9% Native American, 6% Hispanic, 1% Asian, and 1% African American. The percent of students receiving free or reduced lunches has increased from 30 to 42% over the last six years. Overall student population is remaining stable at around 600 students. The Athena-Weston staff includes 38 full-time teachers and two part-time teachers. Twenty-nine percent of the teachers have a master's degree. Years of teaching experience range from 1 to 30+ years. The three administrators all have master's degrees with a range of 25 to 104 additional quarter hours beyond their master's degree. Administrative experience ranges from one to 30 years.
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