At $19,329 per pupil, Mountain Union Elementary ranks #579 of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
82
Total Enrollment
1
Schools
$19,329
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Mountain Union Elementary operates 1 public schools serving 82 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 Shasta County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $19,329 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 43.7% local, 36.1% state, and 20.2% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
and 76.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 50.0% White, 16.2% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Montgomery Creek Elementary, enrolling 68 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Montgomery Creek Elementary accounts for 82.9% of all Mountain Union Elementary student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Mountain Union Elementary a distant remainder — means Mountain 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.
Mountain Union Elementary reports 78.0% free-lunch eligibility
The reported share is at least 75%, indicating a high concentration of measured economic need. 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.
Mountain Union Elementary chronic absenteeism rate is 76.5% — 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.