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Palisades, Washington - 1 schools
At $31,333 per pupil, Palisades School District ranks #21 of 309 Washington districts by per-pupil spending (Washington districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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$31,333
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Palisades School District operates 1 public schools serving 26 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Washington. The school portfolio breaks down into 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 Douglas County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $31,333 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 31 of 309 Washington districts by per-pupil spending. See how Washington compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 11.7% local, 80.6% state, and 7.7% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
. Demographically, the student body averages 56.3% Hispanic or Latino, 43.8% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Palisades Elementary School, enrolling 32 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Palisades Elementary School accounts for 100.0% of all Palisades School District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Palisades School District a distant remainder — means Palisades School District-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. 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.
Palisades School District has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 53.8% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Areas above 75% eligibility receive concentration grants on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.