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Mount Shasta, California - 2 schools
An equity score of 43/100 ranks Mt. Shasta Union Elementary #947 of 1517 districts in California (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $14,371 per pupil, Mt. Shasta Union Elementary ranks #1119 of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Mt. Shasta Union Elementary operates 2 public schools serving 465 students, placing it among the smallest districts in California. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 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 $14,371 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 40.9% local, 47.9% state, and 11.2% 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 43/100, ranked #947 of 1517 in California against a state average of 50, in line with the typical spread seen across the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
and 38.6% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 80.8% White, 11.6% Hispanic or Latino, 1.6% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Sisson, enrolling 274 students (58% of the district's total enrollment).
Sisson accounts for 58.4% of all Mt. Shasta Union Elementary student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Mt. Shasta Union Elementary a distant remainder — means Mt. Shasta Union 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.
Mt. Shasta Union Elementary chronic absenteeism rate is 38.6% — high (typically associated with higher-than-average disruption; recent CRDC data showed elevated rates persisting after pandemic-era schooling changes)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.