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San Rafael, California - 4 schools
285
Total Enrollment
4
Schools
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Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Marin County Office of Education operates 4 public schools serving 285 students, placing it among the smallest districts in California. The school portfolio breaks down into 3 combined, 1 high 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.
The funding mix is 67.2% local, 24.3% state, and 8.6% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
a 57.4:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 70.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 70.6% Hispanic or Latino, 11.9% African American, 10.5% White across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Marin County Special Education, with a diversity index of 71.5/100.
Its largest campus is Marin County Special Education, enrolling 215 students (75% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Marin County Juvenile Court, at 3 students, a 72x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Marin County Special Education accounts for 75.4% of all Marin County Office of Education student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Marin County Office of Education a distant remainder — means Marin County Office of Education-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. 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.
Marin County Office of Education school enrollment varies 72× across entities
Marin County Office of Education school enrollment ranges from 3 students (lowest) to 215 students (highest), a spread of 212 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.
Marin County Office of Education has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 53.2% 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 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.
Marin County Office of Education student-counselor ratio is 57:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 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.
Marin County Office of Education chronic absenteeism rate is 70.8% — 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.
Comparisons are relative to Marin County Office of Education's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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How many schools are in Marin County Office of Education?
Marin County Office of Education has 4 schools, including 3 combined, 1 high. Total enrollment is 285 students.
What is the demographic composition of Marin County Office of Education?
Marin County Office of Education students are 70.6% Hispanic or Latino, 11.9% African American, 10.5% White, 2.4% Asian, averaged across 4 schools. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.