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Guerneville, California - 2 schools
An equity score of 79/100 ranks Guerneville Elementary #117 of 1517 districts in California (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $26,710 per pupil, Guerneville Elementary ranks #88 of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Guerneville Elementary operates 2 public schools serving 232 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 Sonoma County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $26,710 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 187 of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending. See how California compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 42.5% local, 45.7% state, and 11.8% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one. The district's equity score is 79/100, ranked #117 of 1517 in California against a state average of 50, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
and 55.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 60.3% White, 30.1% Hispanic or Latino, 0.6% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Guerneville Elementary (Charter), enrolling 171 students (93% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Guerneville Primary, at 12 students, a 14x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Guerneville Elementary (Charter) accounts for 73.7% of all Guerneville Elementary student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Guerneville Elementary a distant remainder — means Guerneville 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.
Guerneville Elementary chronic absenteeism rate is 55.5% — 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.