At $25,389 per pupil, French Gulch-Whiskeytown Elementary ranks #161 of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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Total Enrollment
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$25,389
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
French Gulch-Whiskeytown Elementary operates 1 public schools serving 18 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 Shasta County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $25,389 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 21.1% local, 64.3% state, and 14.6% 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 27.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 83.3% White, 11.1% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses fell 16.7% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (18 to 15 students), and the student-teacher ratio widened by 1.7 students per teacher despite the decline, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $457,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 49.5% went to instruction, 43.8% to support services, and 0% 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.
French Gulch-Whiskeytown Elementary accounts for 100.0% of all French Gulch-Whiskeytown Elementary student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of French Gulch-Whiskeytown Elementary a distant remainder — means French Gulch-Whiskeytown 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.
French Gulch-Whiskeytown Elementary reports 72.2% free-lunch eligibility
The reported share sits between 62.5% and 75%, above a simple majority but below the highest descriptive band used here. 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.
French Gulch-Whiskeytown Elementary chronic absenteeism rate is 27.8% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
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 Variation between sub-units within French Gulch-Whiskeytown Elementary is typically wider than the French Gulch-Whiskeytown Elementary-aggregate figure suggests.
Comparisons are relative to French Gulch-Whiskeytown Elementary's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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