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Santa Paula, California - 1 schools
At $13,062 per pupil, Mupu Elementary ranks #1409 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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$13,062
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Mupu Elementary operates 1 public schools serving 181 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 Ventura County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $13,062 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 16.5% local, 76.2% state, and 7.3% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
a 875:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 14.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 74.9% Hispanic or Latino, 23.4% White, 1.7% Asian across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Mupu Elementary, enrolling 175 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Mupu Elementary accounts for 96.7% of all Mupu Elementary student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Mupu Elementary a distant remainder — means Mupu 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.
Mupu Elementary student-counselor ratio is 875:1 — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 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.
Mupu Elementary chronic absenteeism rate is 14.3% — low (typically associated with lower-than-average attendance disruption; districts in this range often have attendance interventions, robust transportation, or smaller catchments that reduce barriers)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.