At $75,500 per pupil, Orick Elementary ranks #6 of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
10
Total Enrollment
1
Schools
$75,500
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Orick Elementary operates 1 public schools serving 10 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 Humboldt County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $75,500 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 23.4% local, 68.0% state, and 8.6% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
. Demographically, the student body averages 50.0% White, 37.5% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Orick Elementary, enrolling 8 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses held roughly steady from 2022-23 to 2023-24 (10 to 10 students, +0%), per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $790,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 37.7% went to instruction, 52.7% to support services, and 1.4% 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.
Orick Elementary accounts for 80.0% of all Orick Elementary student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Orick Elementary a distant remainder — means Orick 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.
The reported share is above 87.5%, so economic need is widespread across the measured student population. 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.