An equity score of 63/100 ranks Alta Vista Elementary #441 of 1526 districts in California (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $17,303 per pupil, Alta Vista Elementary ranks #943 of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
495
Total Enrollment
1
Schools
$17,303
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Alta Vista Elementary operates 1 public schools serving 495 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 Tulare County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $17,303 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 6.4% local, 68.0% state, and 25.6% 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 63/100, ranked #441 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.
and 42.9% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 87.2% Hispanic or Latino, 10.4% White, 0.4% Asian across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Alta Vista Elementary, enrolling 531 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Alta Vista Elementary accounts for 100.0% of all Alta Vista Elementary student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Alta Vista Elementary a distant remainder — means Alta Vista 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 Vista Elementary reports 91.1% free-lunch eligibility
The reported share is above 87.5%, so economic need is widespread across the measured student population. 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.
Alta Vista Elementary chronic absenteeism rate is 42.9% — 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.