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Porterville, California - 6 schools
An equity score of 61/100 ranks Burton Elementary #468 of 1517 districts in California (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $15,171 per pupil, Burton Elementary ranks #931 of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
4,784
Total Enrollment
6
Schools
$15,171
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Burton Elementary operates 6 public schools serving 4,784 students, placing it among the smallest districts in California. The school portfolio breaks down into 4 elementary, 1 combined, 1 middle 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 $15,171 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 8.1% local, 77.2% state, and 14.8% 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 61/100, ranked #468 of 1517 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.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 6 schools offering Advanced Placement (1 AP courses district-wide), a 591.2:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 23.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 78.0% Hispanic or Latino, 9.8% White, 4.3% Asian across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is William R. Buckley Elementary, with a diversity index of 50.0/100.
Its largest campus is Summit Charter Academy, enrolling 2,423 students (50% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Oak Grove Elementary, at 393 students, a 6x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Summit Charter Academy accounts for 50.4% of all Burton Elementary student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Burton Elementary a distant remainder — means Burton Elementary-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. 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.
Burton Elementary school enrollment varies 6.2× across entities
Burton Elementary school enrollment ranges from 393 students (lowest) to 2,423 students (highest), a spread of 2,030 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Burton Elementary has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 68.9% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Eligibility here is approaching the 75% concentration-grant threshold; it does not yet unlock the extra funding tier but sits meaningfully above the baseline 50% majority mark. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Burton Elementary student-counselor ratio is 591:1 — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted 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.
Burton Elementary chronic absenteeism rate is 23.7% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
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 Variation between sub-units within Burton Elementary is typically wider than the Burton Elementary-aggregate figure suggests.