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Auburn, California - 4 schools
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Placer County Office of Education operates 4 public schools serving 399 students, placing it among the smallest districts in California. The school portfolio breaks down into 4 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 Placer County.
The funding mix is 43.1% local, 41.4% state, and 15.6% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
a 307:1 student-counselor ratio, somewhat above the 250:1 ASCA recommendation, and 56.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 56.7% White, 23.9% Hispanic or Latino, 7.3% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Placer County Special Education, with a diversity index of 70.4/100.
Its largest campus is Placer County Pathways Charter, enrolling 293 students (72% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Placer County Court Schools, at 14 students, a 21x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Placer County Pathways Charter accounts for 71.8% of all Placer County Office of Education student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Placer County Office of Education a distant remainder — means Placer County Office of Education-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.
Placer County Office of Education school enrollment varies 21× across entities
Placer County Office of Education school enrollment ranges from 14 students (lowest) to 293 students (highest), a spread of 279 students. That spread is wider than typical and predicts noticeable gaps in service quality between the highest and lowest areas. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Placer County Office of Education has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 50.2% 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.
Placer County Office of Education student-counselor ratio is 307:1 — near the typical range (US average ~408) — within the typical range for U.S. public districts
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 Variation between sub-units within Placer County Office of Education is typically wider than the Placer County Office of Education-aggregate figure suggests.
Placer County Office of Education chronic absenteeism rate is 56.8% — 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.
Comparisons are relative to Placer County Office of Education's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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How many schools are in Placer County Office of Education?
Placer County Office of Education has 4 schools, including 4 combined. Total enrollment is 399 students.
What is the demographic composition of Placer County Office of Education?
Placer County Office of Education students are 56.7% White, 23.9% Hispanic or Latino, 7.3% African American, 2.8% Asian, averaged across 4 schools. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.