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Colfax, California - 1 schools
An equity score of 49/100 ranks Colfax Elementary #801 of 1517 districts in California (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $15,255 per pupil, Colfax Elementary ranks #910 of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Colfax Elementary operates 1 public schools serving 342 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 Placer County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $15,255 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending. See how California compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 40.1% local, 40.1% state, and 19.8% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one. The district's equity score is 49/100, ranked #801 of 1517 in California against a state average of 50, in line with the typical spread seen across the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 345:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 48.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 78.6% White, 12.5% Hispanic or Latino, 0.9% Asian across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Colfax Elementary, enrolling 345 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Colfax Elementary accounts for 100.0% of all Colfax Elementary student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Colfax Elementary a distant remainder — means Colfax Elementary-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.
Colfax Elementary student-counselor ratio is 345:1 — 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 Colfax Elementary is typically wider than the Colfax Elementary-aggregate figure suggests.
Colfax Elementary chronic absenteeism rate is 48.7% — 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.