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Hoopa, California - 7 schools
An equity score of 89/100 ranks Klamath-Trinity Joint Unified #12 of 1517 districts in California (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $22,461 per pupil, Klamath-Trinity Joint Unified ranks #157 of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
962
Total Enrollment
7
Schools
$22,461
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Klamath-Trinity Joint Unified operates 7 public schools serving 962 students, placing it among the smallest districts in California. The school portfolio breaks down into 5 elementary, 2 high 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.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $22,461 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 187 of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending. See how California compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 12.3% local, 54.5% state, and 33.2% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles. The district's equity score is 89/100, ranked #12 of 1517 in California against a state average of 50, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 7 schools offering Advanced Placement (1 AP courses district-wide), a 209.6:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 69.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 14.1% White, 5.5% Hispanic or Latino, 0.7% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Trinity Valley Elementary, with a diversity index of 54.7/100.
Its largest campus is Hoopa Valley Elementary, enrolling 363 students (38% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Jack Norton Elementary, at 12 students, a 30x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Hoopa Valley Elementary accounts for 37.7% of all Klamath-Trinity Joint Unified student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Klamath-Trinity Joint Unified-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.
Klamath-Trinity Joint Unified school enrollment varies 30× across entities
Klamath-Trinity Joint Unified school enrollment ranges from 12 students (lowest) to 363 students (highest), a spread of 351 students. That ratio is among the widest observed and reflects extreme enrollment heterogeneity, the district operates both small specialty programs and large comprehensive campuses inside a single budgeting unit. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Klamath-Trinity Joint Unified has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 66.0% 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). Eligibility here is approaching the 75% concentration-grant threshold; it does not yet unlock the extra funding tier but sits meaningfully above the baseline 50% majority mark. 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.
Klamath-Trinity Joint Unified student-counselor ratio is 210:1 — low (typically associated with meeting or exceeding the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommended 250:1 benchmark, which correlates with stronger college and career counseling capacity)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
Klamath-Trinity Joint Unified chronic absenteeism rate is 69.7% — 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 Klamath-Trinity Joint Unified's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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