An equity score of 41/100 ranks Alpha: Blanca Alvarado District #974 of 1526 districts in California (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $16,558 per pupil, Alpha: Blanca Alvarado District ranks #1092 of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
468
Total Enrollment
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$16,558
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Alpha: Blanca Alvarado District operates 1 public schools serving 468 students, placing it among the smallest districts in California. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary 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 Santa Clara County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $16,558 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending. See how California compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 26.4% local, 66.2% state, and 7.3% 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 41/100, ranked #974 of 1526 in California against a state average of 50, notably less even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 500:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 31.2% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 92.4% Hispanic or Latino, 4.2% Asian, 1.0% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Alpha: Blanca Alvarado, enrolling 500 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Alpha: Blanca Alvarado accounts for 100.0% of all Alpha: Blanca Alvarado District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Alpha: Blanca Alvarado District a distant remainder — means Alpha: Blanca Alvarado District-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.
Alpha: Blanca Alvarado District reports 66.7% free-lunch eligibility
The reported share sits between 62.5% and 75%, above a simple majority but below the highest descriptive band used here. 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.
Alpha: Blanca Alvarado District student-counselor ratio is 500:1 — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 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.
Alpha: Blanca Alvarado District chronic absenteeism rate is 31.2% — high (typically associated with higher-than-average disruption; recent CRDC data showed elevated rates persisting after pandemic-era schooling changes)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Comparisons are relative to Alpha: Blanca Alvarado District's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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