At $15,533 per pupil, Cuddeback Union Elementary ranks #1270 of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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$15,533
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Cuddeback Union Elementary operates 1 public schools serving 152 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 Humboldt County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $15,533 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending. See how California compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 21.8% local, 65.3% state, and 12.9% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
a 392.5:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 10.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 70.7% White, 15.3% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Cuddeback Elementary, enrolling 157 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 4.6% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (152 to 159 students), while the student-teacher ratio tightened by 3.1 students per teacher, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $2,558,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 60.1% went to instruction, 27.8% to support services, and 4.9% to capital outlay, a fairly typical instruction/support/capital split for a public school district. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Cuddeback Elementary accounts for 100.0% of all Cuddeback Union Elementary student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Cuddeback Union Elementary a distant remainder — means Cuddeback Union 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.
Cuddeback Union Elementary student-counselor ratio is 393:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Cuddeback Union Elementary chronic absenteeism rate is 10.8% — 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.