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Santa Ynez, California - 2 schools
An equity score of 75/100 ranks College Elementary #170 of 1517 districts in California (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $38,529 per pupil, College Elementary ranks #28 of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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Total Enrollment
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$38,529
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
College Elementary operates 2 public schools serving 202 students, placing it among the smallest districts in California. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 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 $38,529 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 187 of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending. See how California compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 73.6% local, 20.1% state, and 6.2% 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 75/100, ranked #170 of 1517 in California against a state average of 50, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
and 30.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 49.3% Hispanic or Latino, 45.2% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Santa Ynez Elementary, enrolling 147 students (84% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is College Elementary, at 28 students, a 5x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Santa Ynez Elementary accounts for 72.8% of all College Elementary student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of College Elementary a distant remainder — means College 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.
College Elementary chronic absenteeism rate is 30.4% — high (typically associated with higher-than-average disruption; recent CRDC data showed elevated rates persisting after pandemic-era schooling changes)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.