At $17,856 per pupil, Alta-Dutch Flat Union Elementary ranks #847 of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
90
Total Enrollment
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Schools
$17,856
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Alta-Dutch Flat Union Elementary operates 1 public schools serving 90 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 Placer County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $17,856 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 41.6% local, 47.1% state, and 11.3% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
and 43.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 80.8% White, 14.1% Hispanic or Latino, 1.0% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Alta-Dutch Flat Elementary, enrolling 99 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses held roughly steady from 2022-23 to 2023-24 (90 to 90 students, +0%), per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $1,607,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 64.7% went to instruction, 34.2% to support services, and 0% to capital outlay, a fairly typical instruction/support/capital split for a public school district. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Alta-Dutch Flat Elementary accounts for 100.0% of all Alta-Dutch Flat Union Elementary student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Alta-Dutch Flat Union Elementary a distant remainder — means Alta-Dutch Flat Union Elementary-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.
Alta-Dutch Flat Union Elementary chronic absenteeism rate is 43.4% — 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.
Comparisons are relative to Alta-Dutch Flat Union Elementary's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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