At $18,293 per pupil, Holly Drive Leadership Academy District ranks #773 of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
99
Total Enrollment
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$18,293
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 $18,293 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 1880 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.
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 4% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (99 to 103 students), while the student-teacher ratio widened by 1.9 students per teacher, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $1,834,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 57.5% went to instruction, 39.5% to support services, and 1.3% 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.
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 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.
Holly Drive Leadership Academy District reports 81.8% free-lunch eligibility
The reported share is at least 75%, indicating a high concentration of measured economic need. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
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 $18,293 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.