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San Andreas, California - 9 schools
An equity score of 26/100 ranks Calaveras Unified #1331 of 1517 districts in California (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $13,487 per pupil, Calaveras Unified ranks #1329 of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
2,900
Total Enrollment
9
Schools
$13,487
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Calaveras Unified operates 9 public schools serving 2,900 students, placing it among the smaller districts in California. The school portfolio breaks down into 5 elementary, 2 combined, 1 middle, 1 high schools, a compact enough portfolio that families can compare every campus directly before they move, rent, or enrol. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Calaveras County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $13,487 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending. See how California compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 58.9% local, 25.2% state, and 15.9% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers. The district's equity score is 26/100, ranked #1331 of 1517 in California against a state average of 50, notably less even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 9 schools offering Advanced Placement (7 AP courses district-wide), a 184.3:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 52.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 63.9% White, 24.1% Hispanic or Latino, 0.8% Asian across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is West Point Elementary, with a diversity index of 56.9/100.
Its largest campus is Calaveras High, enrolling 703 students (25% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Gold Strike High, at 34 students, a 21x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Calaveras High accounts for 24.2% of all Calaveras Unified student enrollment
That concentration means Calaveras Unified-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.
Calaveras Unified school enrollment varies 21× across entities
Calaveras Unified school enrollment ranges from 34 students (lowest) to 703 students (highest), a spread of 669 students. That spread is wider than typical and predicts noticeable gaps in service quality between the highest and lowest areas. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Calaveras Unified has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 52.5% 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). Areas above 75% eligibility receive concentration grants on top of the basic Title I formula. 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.
Calaveras Unified student-counselor ratio is 184:1 — low (typically associated with meeting or exceeding the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommended 250:1 benchmark, which correlates with stronger college and career counseling capacity)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
Calaveras Unified chronic absenteeism rate is 52.1% — 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.