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Bayside, California - 1 schools
459
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Jacoby Creek Elementary operates 1 public schools serving 459 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 Humboldt County.
The funding mix is 26.1% local, 64.6% state, and 9.3% 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 7.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 72.5% White, 10.3% Hispanic or Latino, 2.0% Asian across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Jacoby Creek, enrolling 455 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Jacoby Creek accounts for 99.1% of all Jacoby Creek Elementary student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Jacoby Creek Elementary a distant remainder — means Jacoby Creek Elementary-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.
Jacoby Creek Elementary chronic absenteeism rate is 7.7% — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
Jacoby Creek Elementary has 1 school, including 1 elementary. Total enrollment is 459 students.
What is the demographic composition of Jacoby Creek Elementary?
Jacoby Creek Elementary students are 72.5% White, 10.3% Hispanic or Latino, 2.0% Asian, 0.4% African American, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.