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Middletown, California - 6 schools
An equity score of 40/100 ranks Middletown Unified #1015 of 1517 districts in California (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $13,074 per pupil, Middletown Unified ranks #1408 of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
1,449
Total Enrollment
6
Schools
$13,074
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Middletown Unified operates 6 public schools serving 1,449 students, placing it among the smallest districts in California. The school portfolio breaks down into 3 elementary, 2 high, 1 middle 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 Lake County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $13,074 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending. See how California compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 37.5% local, 49.6% state, and 12.9% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one. The district's equity score is 40/100, ranked #1015 of 1517 in California against a state average of 50, notably less even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 6 schools offering Advanced Placement (4 AP courses district-wide), a 370.5:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 43.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 61.2% White, 28.9% Hispanic or Latino, 0.9% Asian across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Minnie Cannon Elementary, with a diversity index of 57.8/100.
Its largest campus is Coyote Valley Elementary, enrolling 427 students (29% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Loconoma Valley High, at 10 students, a 43x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Coyote Valley Elementary accounts for 29.4% of all Middletown Unified student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Middletown Unified-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.
Middletown Unified school enrollment varies 43× across entities
Middletown Unified school enrollment ranges from 10 students (lowest) to 427 students (highest), a spread of 417 students. That ratio is among the widest observed and reflects extreme enrollment heterogeneity, the district operates both small specialty programs and large comprehensive campuses inside a single budgeting unit. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Middletown Unified student-counselor ratio is 371:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Middletown Unified chronic absenteeism rate is 43.0% — 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.