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PantryPath Research · School Hunger Atlas

School hunger in Oregon

54% certified free/reduced

Across 1,243 public schools serving 533,925 students, 53.8% of Oregon students are certified free or reduced-price. 806 schools (73% of NSLP participants) operate under the Community Eligibility Provision, and 29.5% of students are directly certified through SNAP, TANF, or Medicaid linkage.

534K

Students enrolled

1,243

Public schools (CCD)

806

CEP / Provision 2 schools

36

Counties in atlas

Oregon by county

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Toggle between the school-food-access composite, free/reduced eligibility, CEP share, direct-certification rate, and SAIPE school-age poverty. Hover a county to see schools, enrollment, and the underlying certification mix.

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Oregon at a glance

Free/reduced

53.8%

Share of enrollment

CEP share

73%

Of NSLP schools

Direct cert

29.5%

SNAP/TANF/Medicaid

NSLP schools

88%

Serve NSLP meals

5–17 in poverty

12.7%

Census SAIPE 2023

Access score

0.67

Composite 0–1

The access score is a 0–1 composite weighted 50% eligibility, 30% CEP share, 20% NSLP share — a visualization and ranking aid, not a direct measurement. See methodology.

County-level hotspots

Top five counties across 36 in Oregon.

Highest free/reduced share

Certified ≤185% FPL per enrollment

  1. 1 Lake 414.0%
  2. 2 Klamath 105.4%
  3. 3 Jefferson 89.5%
  4. 4 Malheur 82.9%
  5. 5 Josephine 75.9%

Highest CEP adoption

Of NSLP schools — min. 3 NSLP schools

  1. 1 Coos 100%
  2. 2 Curry 100%
  3. 3 Hood River 100%
  4. 4 Jefferson 100%
  5. 5 Josephine 100%

Largest enrollment

Total students in CCD universe

  1. 1 Multnomah 80K
  2. 2 Washington 79K
  3. 3 Clackamas 57K
  4. 4 Marion 53K
  5. 5 Lane 42K

Every county in Oregon

All 36 counties with school counts, enrollment, certification mix, CEP adoption, and the SAIPE 5–17 poverty backdrop.

County Schools Enrollment Free/reduced CEP Direct cert 5–17 poverty Access
Baker 14 5,107 26.5% 89% 13.3% 18.7% 0.53
Benton 25 9,482 45.0% 25% 25.3% 9.8% 0.49
Clackamas 114 57,348 36.9% 19% 17.7% 6.0% 0.43
Clatsop 14 4,741 45.9% 44% 24.1% 16.1% 0.49
Columbia 22 6,691 50.7% 68% 25.2% 11.0% 0.63
Coos 24 8,047 60.7% 100% 36.5% 19.8% 0.76
Crook 10 4,261 29.1% 57% 21.6% 15.3% 0.46
Curry 7 1,984 63.6% 100% 40.7% 22.4% 0.82
Deschutes 52 25,880 43.2% 54% 23.0% 9.8% 0.56
Douglas 47 13,638 63.3% 97% 38.4% 18.1% 0.78
Gilliam 3 272 61.8% 33% 30.9% 14.8% 0.61
Grant 9 1,814 27.8% 43% 13.4% 20.0% 0.42
Harney 14 2,071 21.1% 25% 16.2% 20.2% 0.24
Hood River 8 3,580 53.8% 100% 21.0% 12.2% 0.77
Jackson 65 27,496 60.7% 90% 35.2% 12.9% 0.76
Jefferson 12 3,262 89.5% 100% 45.4% 18.5% 0.90
Josephine 25 9,609 75.9% 100% 55.6% 19.5% 0.87
Klamath 28 9,132 105.4% 100% 41.2% 22.1% 1.02
Lake 8 1,135 414.0% 100% 30.6% 19.7% 2.50
Lane 110 42,252 56.9% 85% 32.3% 13.0% 0.72
Lincoln 18 4,971 65.7% 100% 33.1% 18.2% 0.78
Linn 47 17,752 61.6% 93% 34.4% 16.7% 0.76
Malheur 25 5,709 82.9% 89% 48.9% 21.1% 0.82
Marion 105 53,180 59.5% 83% 32.0% 18.1% 0.72
Morrow 9 2,292 67.5% 100% 29.6% 14.5% 0.82
Multnomah 160 80,308 54.2% 82% 35.1% 12.8% 0.70
Polk 23 11,308 60.6% 91% 29.5% 10.5% 0.77
Sherman 1 282 52.5% 0% 17.0% 21.5% 0.46
Tillamook 12 3,297 59.8% 100% 36.3% 14.3% 0.78
Umatilla 34 13,272 67.8% 87% 31.5% 18.7% 0.78
Union 13 3,658 57.0% 82% 37.6% 14.9% 0.70
Wallowa 8 915 44.5% 0% 21.3% 14.6% 0.37
Wasco 10 3,239 72.1% 89% 33.6% 16.2% 0.81
Washington 131 79,226 41.7% 59% 22.7% 8.0% 0.57
Wheeler 3 2,030 3.1% 0% 12.1% 30.5% 0.08
Yamhill 33 14,684 52.0% 81% 27.5% 9.4% 0.69

Oregon school meals guide

How free and reduced-price school lunch eligibility works, application steps, and what to do if your child's school is not in CEP.

School meals guide

Summer meals

When the school year ends, NSLP and CEP stop. The Summer Food Service Program and Summer EBT fill the gap for the 287,059 children who rely on school meals in Oregon.

Summer meals guide

Families with children

SNAP, WIC, Head Start, and the full federal-program stack for households with kids — the assistance ecosystem around the school cafeteria.

Families guide

Oregon child poverty

The sibling atlas — county-level child poverty across Oregon. Free/reduced eligibility and child poverty track each other closely but not perfectly.

Oregon child poverty atlas

Oregon pantries

Verified food pantries, food banks, and meal programs across Oregon — open weeknights, weekends, and through the summer gap.

Oregon pantry directory

Methodology

How we aggregated NCES Common Core of Data school-level records to counties, proxied CEP from lunch_program == 2, and layered SAIPE school-age poverty — plus the access-score formula.

Full methodology