At $28,333 per pupil, Coffee Creek Elementary ranks #115 of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
9
Total Enrollment
1
Schools
$28,333
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Coffee Creek Elementary operates 1 public schools serving 9 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 Trinity County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $28,333 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 23.9% local, 65.5% state, and 10.6% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
. Demographically, the student body averages 100.0% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Coffee Creek Elementary, enrolling 7 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses fell 11.1% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (9 to 8 students), and the student-teacher ratio tightened by 0.8 students per teacher as staffing held steadier than enrollment, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $261,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 68.2% went to instruction, 28.4% to support services, and 0% 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.
Coffee Creek Elementary accounts for 77.8% of all Coffee Creek Elementary student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Coffee Creek Elementary a distant remainder — means Coffee 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.
Coffee Creek Elementary reports 55.6% free-lunch eligibility
The reported share clears the 50% majority mark. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.