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Dunsmuir, California - 1 schools
At $19,616 per pupil, Dunsmuir Elementary ranks #257 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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$19,616
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Dunsmuir Elementary operates 1 public schools serving 93 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 Siskiyou County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $19,616 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 32.4% local, 33.6% state, and 34.1% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
. Demographically, the student body averages 24.6% White, 15.4% Hispanic or Latino, 3.1% Asian across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Dunsmuir Elementary, enrolling 65 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Dunsmuir Elementary accounts for 69.9% of all Dunsmuir Elementary student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Dunsmuir Elementary a distant remainder — means Dunsmuir 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.
Dunsmuir Elementary has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 81.7% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Areas above 75% eligibility — including this one — receive concentration grants on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.