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San Diego, California - 1 schools
At $14,558 per pupil, Holly Drive Leadership Academy District ranks #1078 of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
99
Total Enrollment
1
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$14,558
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Holly Drive Leadership Academy District operates 1 public schools serving 99 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 San Diego County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $14,558 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending. See how California compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 54.2% local, 31.8% state, and 14.0% 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 53.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 56.5% African American, 36.1% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Holly Drive Leadership Academy accounts for 100.0% of all Holly Drive Leadership Academy District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Holly Drive Leadership Academy District a distant remainder — means Holly Drive Leadership Academy District-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.
Holly Drive Leadership Academy District has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 81.8% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Areas above 75% eligibility — including this one — receive concentration grants on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Holly Drive Leadership Academy District chronic absenteeism rate is 53.7% — 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.
Comparisons are relative to Holly Drive Leadership Academy District's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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How many schools are in Holly Drive Leadership Academy District?
Holly Drive Leadership Academy District has 1 school, including 1 elementary. Total enrollment is 99 students.
How much does Holly Drive Leadership Academy District spend per student?
Holly Drive Leadership Academy District spends $14,558 per student.
What is the demographic composition of Holly Drive Leadership Academy District?
Holly Drive Leadership Academy District students are 56.5% African American, 36.1% Hispanic or Latino, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.