At $25,656 per pupil, Lagunitas Elementary ranks #159 of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
160
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$25,656
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Lagunitas Elementary operates 2 public schools serving 160 students, placing it among the smallest districts in California. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 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 Marin County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $25,656 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 77.6% local, 18.2% state, and 4.2% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
and 52.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 68.1% White, 17.3% Hispanic or Latino, 1.3% Asian across the district's schools.
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses held roughly steady from 2022-23 to 2023-24 (160 to 162 students, +1.3%), per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $4,373,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 50.2% went to instruction, 39.8% to support services, and 1.3% to capital outlay, support-services-heavy relative to typical districts, reflecting spending on transportation, administration, or student services. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
San Geronimo Valley Elementary accounts for 57.8% of all Lagunitas Elementary student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Lagunitas Elementary a distant remainder — means Lagunitas 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.
Lagunitas Elementary chronic absenteeism rate is 52.5% — 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.