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Forest Ranch, California - 1 schools
At $10,673 per pupil, Forest Ranch Charter District ranks #1750 of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
107
Total Enrollment
1
Schools
$10,673
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Forest Ranch Charter District operates 1 public schools serving 107 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 Butte County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $10,673 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the bottom 187 of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending. See how California compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 24.7% local, 65.1% state, and 10.2% 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 34.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 66.4% White, 21.8% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Forest Ranch Charter, enrolling 110 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Forest Ranch Charter accounts for 100.0% of all Forest Ranch Charter District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Forest Ranch Charter District a distant remainder — means Forest Ranch Charter District-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.
Forest Ranch Charter District reports 54.2% free-lunch eligibility
The reported share clears the 50% majority mark. 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.
Forest Ranch Charter District chronic absenteeism rate is 34.5% — high (typically associated with higher-than-average disruption; recent CRDC data showed elevated rates persisting after pandemic-era schooling changes)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Comparisons are relative to Forest Ranch Charter District's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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