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Elverta, California - 2 schools
An equity score of 49/100 ranks Elverta Joint Elementary #806 of 1517 districts in California (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $15,805 per pupil, Elverta Joint Elementary ranks #774 of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
212
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$15,805
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, Middle
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Elverta Joint Elementary operates 2 public schools serving 212 students, placing it among the smallest districts in California. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary, 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 Sacramento County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $15,805 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 35.1% local, 50.9% state, and 13.9% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles. The district's equity score is 49/100, ranked #806 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.
and 45.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 47.3% Hispanic or Latino, 41.5% White, 5.9% Asian across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Elverta Elementary, enrolling 159 students (73% of the district's total enrollment).
Elverta Elementary accounts for 72.9% of all Elverta Joint Elementary student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Elverta Joint Elementary a distant remainder — means Elverta Joint 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.
Elverta Joint Elementary has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 67.7% 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). Eligibility here is approaching the 75% concentration-grant threshold; it does not yet unlock the extra funding tier but sits meaningfully above the baseline 50% majority mark. 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.
Elverta Joint Elementary chronic absenteeism rate is 45.8% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 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.