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Lacrosse, Washington - 2 schools
At $53,316 per pupil, Lacrosse School District ranks #3 of 309 Washington districts by per-pupil spending (Washington districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
72
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$53,316
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Lacrosse School District operates 2 public schools serving 72 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Washington. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary, 1 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 Whitman County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $53,316 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 31 of 309 Washington districts by per-pupil spending. See how Washington compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 20.7% local, 69.3% state, and 10.0% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
a 117.3:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 68.9% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 88.6% White, 6.8% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Lacrosse Elementary School, enrolling 33 students (54% of the district's total enrollment).
Lacrosse Elementary School accounts for 45.8% of all Lacrosse School District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Lacrosse School District a distant remainder — means Lacrosse School District-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.
Lacrosse School District student-counselor ratio is 117:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 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.
Lacrosse School District chronic absenteeism rate is 68.9% — 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.