An equity score of 77/100 ranks Guerneville Elementary #156 of 1526 districts in California (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $26,612 per pupil, Guerneville Elementary ranks #138 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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$26,612
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
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 $26,612 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 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 77/100, ranked #156 of 1526 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 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.
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.