At $35,583 per pupil, Little Shasta Elementary ranks #52 of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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Total Enrollment
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Schools
$35,583
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Little Shasta Elementary operates 1 public schools serving 12 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 Siskiyou County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $35,583 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 26.7% local, 66.4% state, and 6.9% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
and 38.9% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 77.8% White, 22.2% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Little Shasta Elementary, enrolling 18 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 58.3% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (12 to 19 students), while the student-teacher ratio widened by 3.5 students per teacher, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $446,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 56.5% went to instruction, 34.8% to support services, and 3.8% to capital outlay, a fairly typical instruction/support/capital split for a public school district. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Little Shasta Elementary accounts for 100.0% of all Little Shasta Elementary student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Little Shasta Elementary a distant remainder — means Little Shasta 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.
Little Shasta Elementary chronic absenteeism rate is 38.9% — 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.