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Coronado, California - 4 schools
An equity score of 44/100 ranks Coronado Unified #909 of 1517 districts in California (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $17,402 per pupil, Coronado Unified ranks #476 of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
2,799
Total Enrollment
4
Schools
$17,402
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Coronado Unified operates 4 public schools serving 2,799 students, placing it among the smallest districts in California. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 elementary, 1 high, 1 middle 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 Diego County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $17,402 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 46.8% local, 41.3% state, and 11.9% 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 44/100, ranked #909 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.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 4 schools offering Advanced Placement (21 AP courses district-wide), a 561.3:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 12.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 56.8% White, 25.7% Hispanic or Latino, 2.4% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Coronado High, with a diversity index of 60.6/100.
Its largest campus is Coronado High, enrolling 999 students (36% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Silver Strand Elementary, at 324 students, a 3x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Coronado High accounts for 35.7% of all Coronado Unified student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Coronado Unified-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. 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.
Coronado Unified school enrollment varies 3.1× across entities
Coronado Unified school enrollment ranges from 324 students (lowest) to 999 students (highest), a spread of 675 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Coronado Unified student-counselor ratio is 561:1 — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 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.
Coronado Unified chronic absenteeism rate is 12.5% — low (typically associated with lower-than-average attendance disruption; districts in this range often have attendance interventions, robust transportation, or smaller catchments that reduce barriers)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.