An equity score of 43/100 ranks Aspire Junior Collegiate Academy District #935 of 1526 districts in California (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $16,241 per pupil, Aspire Junior Collegiate Academy District ranks #1141 of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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Total Enrollment
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$16,241
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Aspire Junior Collegiate Academy District operates 1 public schools serving 324 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 Los Angeles County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $16,241 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 15.8% local, 68.9% state, and 15.3% 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 43/100, ranked #935 of 1526 in California against a state average of 50, in line with the typical spread seen across the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
and 45.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 95.4% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Aspire Junior Collegiate Academy accounts for 100.0% of all Aspire Junior Collegiate Academy District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Aspire Junior Collegiate Academy District a distant remainder — means Aspire Junior Collegiate Academy 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.
Aspire Junior Collegiate Academy District reports 67.6% 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.
Aspire Junior Collegiate Academy District chronic absenteeism rate is 45.3% — 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 Aspire Junior Collegiate Academy District's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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