At $21,104 per pupil, Mccloud Union Elementary ranks #374 of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
48
Total Enrollment
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Schools
$21,104
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Mccloud Union Elementary operates 1 public schools serving 48 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 $21,104 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending. See how California compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 35.7% local, 36.7% state, and 27.6% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
and 79.6% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 59.3% White, 24.1% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Mccloud Elementary, enrolling 54 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Mccloud Elementary accounts for 100.0% of all Mccloud Union Elementary student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Mccloud Union Elementary a distant remainder — means Mccloud Union 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.
Mccloud Union Elementary reports 72.9% free-lunch eligibility
The reported share sits between 62.5% and 75%, above a simple majority but below the highest descriptive band used here. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Mccloud Union Elementary chronic absenteeism rate is 79.6% — 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.