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Soquel, California - 1 schools
At $14,401 per pupil, Mountain Elementary ranks #1114 of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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Total Enrollment
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$14,401
Per-Pupil Spending
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Mountain Elementary operates 1 public schools serving 160 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 Santa Cruz County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $14,401 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 63.2% local, 34.9% state, and 1.9% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
and 24.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 67.8% White, 18.2% Hispanic or Latino, 4.2% Asian across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Mountain Elementary, enrolling 143 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Mountain Elementary accounts for 89.4% of all Mountain Elementary student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Mountain Elementary a distant remainder — means Mountain 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.
Mountain Elementary chronic absenteeism rate is 24.5% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
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 Variation between sub-units within Mountain Elementary is typically wider than the Mountain Elementary-aggregate figure suggests.