At $16,414 per pupil, Douglas City Elementary ranks #1119 of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Douglas City Elementary operates 1 public schools serving 162 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 Trinity County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $16,414 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 18.0% local, 67.2% state, and 14.8% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
and 6.2% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 67.3% White, 9.9% Asian, 7.4% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Douglas City Elementary, enrolling 162 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses held roughly steady from 2022-23 to 2023-24 (162 to 165 students, +1.9%), per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $2,811,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 62.7% went to instruction, 23.3% to support services, and 0.3% 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.
Douglas City Elementary accounts for 100.0% of all Douglas City Elementary student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Douglas City Elementary a distant remainder — means Douglas City 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.
Douglas City Elementary chronic absenteeism rate is 6.2% — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
Douglas City Elementary has 1 school, including 1 elementary. Total enrollment is 162 students.
How much does Douglas City Elementary spend per student?
Douglas City Elementary spends $16,414 per student.
What is the demographic composition of Douglas City Elementary?
Douglas City Elementary students are 67.3% White, 9.9% Asian, 7.4% Hispanic or Latino, 1.9% African American, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.