Athena Elementary School

Set in Athena, Oregon, Athena Elementary School is a micro-enrollment K-5 school, one of the schools within Athena-Weston SD 29RJ. It hosts 124 students across grades pre-K through 3. That puts it 61% below the typical public school in Oregon, which averages around 321 students.

Athena-Weston SD 29RJ runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 484 students. Athena Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Athena Elementary School lists that White students make up the majority at 73%; the rest reads as 15% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 2% Native American.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.5:1 average. About 74% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Umatilla County's rate of about 89%.

After controlling for student poverty, Athena Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.8%, the actual is 41.9%, a residual of +8.1 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Umatilla County shows the typical household earns roughly $67,728 per year, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Umatilla County runs 35 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,143 students), of which Athena Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Weston-McEwen High School, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Athena Elementary School comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 25.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Athena Elementary School has edged down 22%, going from 158 students in 2018 to 124 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 5% to 15% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 9.5:1 in 2025.

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