At $27,750 per pupil, Panoche Elementary ranks #123 of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Panoche Elementary operates 1 public schools serving 8 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 San Benito County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $27,750 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 62.7% local, 31.0% state, and 6.3% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
and 57.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 71.4% Hispanic or Latino, 28.6% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Panoche Elementary, enrolling 7 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 25% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (8 to 10 students), while the student-teacher ratio widened by 1.6 students per teacher, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $244,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 48.4% went to instruction, 42.6% to support services, and 2% 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.
Panoche Elementary accounts for 87.5% of all Panoche Elementary student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Panoche Elementary a distant remainder — means Panoche 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.
Panoche Elementary chronic absenteeism rate is 57.1% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 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.