At $33,784 per pupil, Lakeside Joint ranks #61 of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
74
Total Enrollment
1
Schools
$33,784
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Lakeside Joint operates 1 public schools serving 74 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 Santa Clara County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $33,784 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 85.1% local, 13.4% state, and 1.5% 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 32.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 64.1% White, 7.8% Hispanic or Latino, 6.3% Asian across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Lakeside Elementary, enrolling 64 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Lakeside Elementary accounts for 86.5% of all Lakeside Joint student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Lakeside Joint a distant remainder — means Lakeside Joint-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.
Lakeside Joint chronic absenteeism rate is 32.8% — high (typically associated with higher-than-average disruption; recent CRDC data showed elevated rates persisting after pandemic-era schooling changes)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.