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Mountain House, California - 8 schools
An equity score of 17/100 ranks Lammersville Joint Unified #1457 of 1517 districts in California (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $10,700 per pupil, Lammersville Joint Unified ranks #1745 of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
7,520
Total Enrollment
8
Schools
$10,700
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Lammersville Joint Unified operates 8 public schools serving 7,520 students, placing it among the smaller districts in California. The school portfolio breaks down into 7 elementary, 1 high schools, a compact enough portfolio that families can compare every campus directly before they move, rent, or enrol. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in San Joaquin County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $10,700 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the bottom 187 of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending. See how California compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 55.7% local, 39.9% state, and 4.4% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers. The district's equity score is 17/100, ranked #1457 of 1517 in California against a state average of 50, notably less even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 8 schools offering Advanced Placement (30 AP courses district-wide), a 485.6:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 16.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 56.8% Asian, 17.3% Hispanic or Latino, 13.1% White across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Lammersville Elementary, with a diversity index of 69.6/100.
Its largest campus is Mountain House High, enrolling 2,428 students (33% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Lammersville Elementary, at 203 students, a 12x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Mountain House High accounts for 32.3% of all Lammersville Joint Unified student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Lammersville Joint Unified-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. 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.
Lammersville Joint Unified school enrollment varies 12× across entities
Lammersville Joint Unified school enrollment ranges from 203 students (lowest) to 2,428 students (highest), a spread of 2,225 students. That spread reflects typical mixed-portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Lammersville Joint Unified student-counselor ratio is 486:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Lammersville Joint Unified chronic absenteeism rate is 16.4% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
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 Variation between sub-units within Lammersville Joint Unified is typically wider than the Lammersville Joint Unified-aggregate figure suggests.