An equity score of 52/100 ranks Orland Joint Unified #716 of 1526 districts in California (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $14,982 per pupil, Orland Joint Unified ranks #1393 of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
2,262
Total Enrollment
6
Schools
$14,982
Per-Pupil Spending
High, Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Orland Joint Unified operates 6 public schools serving 2,262 students, placing it among the smallest districts in California. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 high, 2 elementary, 1 middle, 1 combined 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 Glenn County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $14,982 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending. See how California compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 23.8% local, 61.5% state, and 14.7% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles. The district's equity score is 52/100, ranked #716 of 1526 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.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 6 schools offering Advanced Placement (6 AP courses district-wide), a 1009.7:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 37.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 72.3% Hispanic or Latino, 23.4% White, 1.9% Asian across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Orland High, with a diversity index of 49.4/100.
Its largest campus is Orland High, enrolling 725 students (33% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Orland Community Day, at 8 students, a 91x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Orland High accounts for 32.1% of all Orland Joint Unified student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Orland Joint Unified-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: high. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.
Orland Joint Unified school enrollment varies 91× across entities
Orland Joint Unified school enrollment ranges from 8 students (lowest) to 725 students (highest), a spread of 717 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
The reported share sits between 62.5% and 75%, above a simple majority but below the highest descriptive band used here. 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.
Orland Joint Unified student-counselor ratio is 1010:1 — 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.
Orland Joint Unified chronic absenteeism rate is 37.4% — 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.