An equity score of 70/100 ranks Alpaugh Unified #281 of 1526 districts in California (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $17,570 per pupil, Alpaugh Unified ranks #898 of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
374
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$17,570
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Alpaugh Unified operates 2 public schools serving 374 students, placing it among the smallest districts in California. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary, 1 high schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Tulare County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $17,570 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending. See how California compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 9.5% local, 65.1% state, and 25.3% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles. The district's equity score is 70/100, ranked #281 of 1526 in California against a state average of 50, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 345:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 58.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 94.8% Hispanic or Latino, 4.7% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Alpaugh Elementary, enrolling 249 students (72% of the district's total enrollment).
Alpaugh Elementary accounts for 66.6% of all Alpaugh Unified student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Alpaugh Unified a distant remainder — means Alpaugh Unified-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: elementary. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
The reported share is at least 75%, indicating a high concentration of measured economic need. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Alpaugh Unified student-counselor ratio is 345:1 — near the typical range (US average ~408) — within the typical range for U.S. public districts
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Variation between sub-units within Alpaugh Unified is typically wider than the Alpaugh Unified-aggregate figure suggests.
Alpaugh Unified chronic absenteeism rate is 58.0% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.