At $26,378 per pupil, Cold Spring Elementary ranks #142 of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
193
Total Enrollment
1
Schools
$26,378
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Cold Spring Elementary operates 1 public schools serving 193 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 Santa Barbara County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $26,378 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 84.6% local, 12.1% state, and 3.3% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
and 5.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 79.3% White, 5.3% Hispanic or Latino, 1.1% Asian across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Cold Spring Elementary, enrolling 188 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses fell 7.8% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (193 to 178 students), and the student-teacher ratio held roughly steady, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $6,657,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 52.7% went to instruction, 21.5% to support services, and 16.9% to capital outlay, a capital-heavy year, consistent with active construction, renovation, or major equipment purchases. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Cold Spring Elementary accounts for 97.4% of all Cold Spring Elementary student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Cold Spring Elementary a distant remainder — means Cold Spring 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.
Cold Spring Elementary chronic absenteeism rate is 5.3% — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
Cold Spring Elementary has 1 school, including 1 elementary. Total enrollment is 193 students.
How much does Cold Spring Elementary spend per student?
Cold Spring Elementary spends $26,378 per student.
What is the demographic composition of Cold Spring Elementary?
Cold Spring Elementary students are 79.3% White, 5.3% Hispanic or Latino, 1.1% Asian, 0.5% African American, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.