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Larkspur, California - 3 schools
An equity score of 42/100 ranks Larkspur-Corte Madera #967 of 1517 districts in California (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $15,773 per pupil, Larkspur-Corte Madera ranks #783 of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
1,262
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$15,773
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, Middle
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Larkspur-Corte Madera operates 3 public schools serving 1,262 students, placing it among the smallest districts in California. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 elementary, 1 middle 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 $15,773 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending. See how California compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 80.2% local, 12.2% state, and 7.6% 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 42/100, ranked #967 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.
a 388.7:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 6.2% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 67.5% White, 15.8% Hispanic or Latino, 5.9% Asian across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Cove, with a diversity index of 55.2/100.
Its largest campus is Neil Cummins Elementary, enrolling 451 students (39% of the district's total enrollment).
Neil Cummins Elementary accounts for 35.7% of all Larkspur-Corte Madera student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Larkspur-Corte Madera-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.
Larkspur-Corte Madera student-counselor ratio is 389:1 — 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.
Larkspur-Corte Madera chronic absenteeism rate is 6.2% — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 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.