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Montague, California - 1 schools
At $26,267 per pupil, Little Shasta Elementary ranks #94 of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
12
Total Enrollment
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Schools
$26,267
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary
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 $26,267 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 187 of 1862 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).
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 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.
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.