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Lindsay, California - 10 schools
An equity score of 87/100 ranks Lindsay Unified #22 of 1517 districts in California (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $20,396 per pupil, Lindsay Unified ranks #215 of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
3,976
Total Enrollment
10
Schools
$20,396
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Lindsay Unified operates 10 public schools serving 3,976 students, placing it among the smaller districts in California. The school portfolio breaks down into 6 elementary, 2 high, 2 combined 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 Tulare County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $20,396 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 9.8% local, 64.4% state, and 25.8% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles. The district's equity score is 87/100, ranked #22 of 1517 in California against a state average of 50, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 10 schools offering Advanced Placement (2 AP courses district-wide), a 343.7:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 52.2% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 93.0% Hispanic or Latino, 5.2% White, 0.9% Asian across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Lindsay Community Day, with a diversity index of 24.5/100.
Its largest campus is Lindsay Senior High, enrolling 1,132 students (29% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Lindsay Community Day, at 14 students, a 81x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Lindsay Senior High accounts for 28.5% of all Lindsay Unified student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Lindsay 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.
Lindsay Unified school enrollment varies 81× across entities
Lindsay Unified school enrollment ranges from 14 students (lowest) to 1,132 students (highest), a spread of 1,118 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Lindsay Unified has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 83.6% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Areas above 75% eligibility — including this one — receive concentration grants on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Lindsay Unified student-counselor ratio is 344:1 — near the typical range (US average ~408) — within the typical range for U.S. public districts
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 Variation between sub-units within Lindsay Unified is typically wider than the Lindsay Unified-aggregate figure suggests.
Lindsay Unified chronic absenteeism rate is 52.2% — 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.