At $16,825 per pupil, Happy Valley Elementary ranks #1038 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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Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Happy Valley Elementary operates 1 public schools serving 120 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 Santa Cruz County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $16,825 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending. See how California compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 77.7% local, 16.8% state, and 5.6% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
and 31.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 78.1% White, 7.6% Hispanic or Latino, 1.0% Asian across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Happy Valley Elementary, enrolling 106 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses held roughly steady from 2022-23 to 2023-24 (120 to 122 students, +1.7%), per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $2,023,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 62.6% went to instruction, 36.1% to support services, and 0.2% 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.
Happy Valley Elementary accounts for 88.3% of all Happy Valley Elementary student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Happy Valley Elementary a distant remainder — means Happy Valley 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.
Happy Valley Elementary chronic absenteeism rate is 31.1% — 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.