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Alta, California - 1 schools
At $17,667 per pupil, Alta-Dutch Flat Union Elementary ranks #432 of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
90
Total Enrollment
1
Schools
$17,667
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary
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 $17,667 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 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).
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 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.
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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