At $17,028 per pupil, Carbonado School District ranks #222 of 311 Washington districts by per-pupil spending (Washington districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Carbonado School District operates 1 public schools serving 180 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Washington. 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 Pierce County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $17,028 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 311 Washington districts by per-pupil spending. See how Washington compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 16.5% local, 76.0% state, and 7.5% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
a 880:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 16.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 95.5% White, 3.4% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 4.4% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (180 to 188 students), while the student-teacher ratio widened by 0.6 students per teacher, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $3,330,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 65.6% went to instruction, 24.6% to support services, and 0.7% to capital outlay, unusually instruction-forward, with a larger-than-typical share reaching classrooms directly. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Carbonado Historical School 19 accounts for 97.8% of all Carbonado School District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Carbonado School District a distant remainder — means Carbonado School 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.
Carbonado School District student-counselor ratio is 880:1 — 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.
Carbonado School District chronic absenteeism rate is 16.5% — 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 Carbonado School District is typically wider than the Carbonado School District-aggregate figure suggests.