At $37,339 per pupil, Oakland Unity Middle District ranks #45 of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Oakland Unity Middle District operates 1 public schools serving 59 students, placing it among the smallest districts in California. The school portfolio breaks down into 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 Alameda County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $37,339 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 188 of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending. See how California compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 26.4% local, 50.0% state, and 23.6% 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 132:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 22.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 80.3% Hispanic or Latino, 9.1% White, 9.1% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Oakland Unity Middle, enrolling 132 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 111.9% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (59 to 125 students), while the student-teacher ratio widened by 22.6 students per teacher, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $2,435,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 45.3% went to instruction, 39.7% to support services, and 1% to capital outlay, support-services-heavy relative to typical districts, reflecting spending on transportation, administration, or student services. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Oakland Unity Middle accounts for 100.0% of all Oakland Unity Middle District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Oakland Unity Middle District a distant remainder — means Oakland Unity Middle District-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: middle. 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.
Oakland Unity Middle District student-counselor ratio is 132:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
Oakland Unity Middle District chronic absenteeism rate is 22.0% — 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 Oakland Unity Middle District is typically wider than the Oakland Unity Middle District-aggregate figure suggests.
Comparisons are relative to Oakland Unity Middle District's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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