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Alpaugh, California - 2 schools
An equity score of 80/100 ranks Alpaugh Unified #99 of 1517 districts in California (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $17,473 per pupil, Alpaugh Unified ranks #463 of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
374
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$17,473
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 $17,473 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 1862 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 80/100, ranked #99 of 1517 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 dominant entity. Grade band: elementary. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Alpaugh Unified has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 81.3% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Areas above 75% eligibility — including this one — receive concentration grants on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
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.