At $24,817 per pupil, Dunsmuir Elementary ranks #176 of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
93
Total Enrollment
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Schools
$24,817
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 $24,817 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 188 of 1880 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).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses fell 18.3% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (93 to 76 students), and the student-teacher ratio tightened by 2.8 students per teacher as staffing held steadier than enrollment, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $2,637,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 45.4% went to instruction, 37.6% to support services, and 9.5% to capital outlay, support-services-heavy relative to typical districts, reflecting spending on transportation, administration, or student services. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
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 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.
The reported share is at least 75%, indicating a high concentration of measured economic need. 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.