At $32,812 per pupil, Banta Unified ranks #69 of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
199
Total Enrollment
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Schools
$32,812
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Banta Unified operates 1 public schools serving 199 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 San Joaquin County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $32,812 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 188 of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending. See how California compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 65.5% local, 25.2% state, and 9.3% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
and 44.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 54.5% Hispanic or Latino, 21.8% Asian, 14.4% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Banta Elementary, enrolling 202 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses fell 15.6% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (199 to 168 students), and the student-teacher ratio tightened by 1.3 students per teacher as staffing held steadier than enrollment, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $10,543,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 31.6% went to instruction, 35.7% to support services, and 3.9% to capital outlay, support-services-heavy relative to typical districts, reflecting spending on transportation, administration, or student services. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Banta Elementary accounts for 100.0% of all Banta Unified student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Banta Unified a distant remainder — means Banta Unified-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.
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.
Banta Unified chronic absenteeism rate is 44.1% — 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.