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Denair, California - 2 schools
142
Total Enrollment
2
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Per-Pupil Spending
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Gratton Elementary operates 2 public schools serving 142 students, placing it among the smallest districts in California. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 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 Stanislaus County.
The funding mix is 36.9% local, 52.7% state, and 10.3% 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 12.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 78.8% White, 17.4% Hispanic or Latino, 3.9% Asian across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Gratton Charter, enrolling 111 students (82% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Gratton Elementary, at 24 students, a 5x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Gratton Charter accounts for 78.2% of all Gratton Elementary student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Gratton Elementary a distant remainder — means Gratton 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.
Gratton Elementary chronic absenteeism rate is 12.5% — low (typically associated with lower-than-average attendance disruption; districts in this range often have attendance interventions, robust transportation, or smaller catchments that reduce barriers)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.