At $14,503 per pupil, Paradise Elementary ranks #1479 of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
193
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$14,503
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Paradise Elementary operates 2 public schools serving 193 students, placing it among the smallest districts in California. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 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 Stanislaus County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $14,503 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 24.4% local, 69.8% state, and 5.8% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
and 9.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 69.0% Hispanic or Latino, 20.4% White, 7.7% Asian across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Paradise Charter, enrolling 118 students (67% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses fell 5.7% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (193 to 182 students), and the student-teacher ratio tightened by 1.2 students per teacher as staffing held steadier than enrollment, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $2,990,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 56.6% went to instruction, 37% to support services, and 5.1% 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.
Paradise Charter accounts for 61.1% of all Paradise Elementary student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Paradise Elementary a distant remainder — means Paradise 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.
Paradise Elementary chronic absenteeism rate is 9.3% — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 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.