At $19,412 per pupil, Connect Community Charter District ranks #569 of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
148
Total Enrollment
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$19,412
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Connect Community Charter District operates 1 public schools serving 148 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 San Mateo County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $19,412 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending. See how California compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 52.0% local, 25.5% state, and 22.6% 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 43.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 95.8% Hispanic or Latino, 2.8% White, 0.7% Asian across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Connect Community Charter, enrolling 143 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses fell 10.8% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (148 to 132 students), and the student-teacher ratio tightened by 4.4 students per teacher as staffing held steadier than enrollment, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $2,908,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 67% went to instruction, 30.6% to support services, and 1.2% 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.
Connect Community Charter accounts for 96.6% of all Connect Community Charter District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Connect Community Charter District a distant remainder — means Connect Community Charter District-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.
Connect Community Charter District reports 60.1% 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.
Connect Community Charter District chronic absenteeism rate is 43.4% — 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.
Comparisons are relative to Connect Community Charter District's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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How many schools are in Connect Community Charter District?
Connect Community Charter District has 1 school, including 1 elementary. Total enrollment is 148 students.
How much does Connect Community Charter District spend per student?
Connect Community Charter District spends $19,412 per student.
What is the demographic composition of Connect Community Charter District?
Connect Community Charter District students are 95.8% Hispanic or Latino, 2.8% White, 0.7% Asian, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.