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Junction City, California - 1 schools
At $19,743 per pupil, Junction City Elementary ranks #251 of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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$19,743
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Junction City Elementary operates 1 public schools serving 63 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 Trinity County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $19,743 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending. See how California compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 21.2% local, 66.3% state, and 12.5% 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 10.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 72.3% White, 10.8% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Junction City Elementary, enrolling 65 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Junction City Elementary accounts for 100.0% of all Junction City Elementary student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Junction City Elementary a distant remainder — means Junction City 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.
Junction City Elementary chronic absenteeism rate is 10.8% — low (typically associated with lower-than-average attendance disruption; districts in this range often have attendance interventions, robust transportation, or smaller catchments that reduce barriers)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.