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Meadow Vista, California - 2 schools
An equity score of 28/100 ranks Placer Hills Union Elementary #1292 of 1517 districts in California (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $12,207 per pupil, Placer Hills Union Elementary ranks #1562 of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
766
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$12,207
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Placer Hills Union Elementary operates 2 public schools serving 766 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 Placer County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $12,207 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending. See how California compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 69.7% local, 21.7% state, and 8.7% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers. The district's equity score is 28/100, ranked #1292 of 1517 in California against a state average of 50, notably less even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
and 42.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 82.8% White, 11.6% Hispanic or Latino, 0.5% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Weimar Hills, enrolling 388 students (51% of the district's total enrollment).
Weimar Hills accounts for 50.7% of all Placer Hills Union Elementary student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Placer Hills Union Elementary a distant remainder — means Placer Hills Union Elementary-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: elementary. 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 Hills Union Elementary chronic absenteeism rate is 42.7% — 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 Hills Union Elementary's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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