At $54,607 per pupil, Big Creek Elementary ranks #18 of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
28
Total Enrollment
1
Schools
$54,607
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Big Creek Elementary operates 1 public schools serving 28 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 Fresno County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $54,607 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 66.3% local, 23.0% state, and 10.7% 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 66.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 52.4% Hispanic or Latino, 42.9% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Big Creek Elementary, enrolling 21 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Big Creek Elementary accounts for 75.0% of all Big Creek Elementary student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Big Creek Elementary a distant remainder — means Big Creek 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.
Big Creek Elementary chronic absenteeism rate is 66.7% — 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.