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Cloverdale, California - 4 schools
An equity score of 42/100 ranks Cloverdale Unified #966 of 1517 districts in California (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $14,871 per pupil, Cloverdale Unified ranks #997 of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
1,318
Total Enrollment
4
Schools
$14,871
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Cloverdale Unified operates 4 public schools serving 1,318 students, placing it among the smallest districts in California. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 elementary, 2 high 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 Sonoma County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $14,871 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 61.2% local, 31.1% state, and 7.7% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers. The district's equity score is 42/100, ranked #966 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 4 schools offering Advanced Placement (6 AP courses district-wide), a 337:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 49.9% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 60.4% Hispanic or Latino, 31.6% White, 0.7% Asian across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Washington, with a diversity index of 55.9/100.
Jefferson Elementary accounts for 36.9% of all Cloverdale Unified student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Cloverdale Unified-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: elementary. 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.
Cloverdale Unified school enrollment varies 24× across entities
Cloverdale Unified school enrollment ranges from 20 students (lowest) to 487 students (highest), a spread of 467 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.
Cloverdale Unified student-counselor ratio is 337:1 — near the typical range (US average ~408) — within the typical range for U.S. public districts
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 Variation between sub-units within Cloverdale Unified is typically wider than the Cloverdale Unified-aggregate figure suggests.
Cloverdale Unified chronic absenteeism rate is 49.9% — 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.