At $50,600 per pupil, Indian Diggings Elementary ranks #20 of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
10
Total Enrollment
1
Schools
$50,600
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Indian Diggings Elementary operates 1 public schools serving 10 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 El Dorado County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $50,600 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 32.6% local, 61.4% state, and 6.0% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
and 41.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 83.3% White, 8.3% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Indian Diggings Elementary, enrolling 12 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Indian Diggings Elementary accounts for 100.0% of all Indian Diggings Elementary student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Indian Diggings Elementary a distant remainder — means Indian Diggings 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.
Indian Diggings Elementary chronic absenteeism rate is 41.7% — 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.