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Quincy, California - 10 schools
An equity score of 60/100 ranks Plumas Unified #494 of 1517 districts in California (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $17,371 per pupil, Plumas Unified ranks #478 of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
1,755
Total Enrollment
10
Schools
$17,371
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Plumas Unified operates 10 public schools serving 1,755 students, placing it among the smaller districts in California. The school portfolio breaks down into 4 elementary, 4 combined, 2 high schools, a compact enough portfolio that families can compare every campus directly before they move, rent, or enrol. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Plumas County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $17,371 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending. See how California compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 66.4% local, 19.5% state, and 14.1% 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 60/100, ranked #494 of 1517 in California against a state average of 50, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 3 of 10 schools offering Advanced Placement (12 AP courses district-wide), a 219.5:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 71.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 66.3% White, 18.6% Hispanic or Latino, 0.6% Asian across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Greenville Elementary, with a diversity index of 67.3/100.
Its largest campus is C. Roy Carmichael Elementary, enrolling 344 students (20% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Almanor High (Continuation), at 3 students, a 115x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
C. Roy Carmichael Elementary accounts for 19.6% of all Plumas Unified student enrollment
That concentration means Plumas Unified-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.
Plumas Unified school enrollment varies 115× across entities
Plumas Unified school enrollment ranges from 3 students (lowest) to 344 students (highest), a spread of 341 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Plumas Unified has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 54.1% 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.
Plumas Unified student-counselor ratio is 220:1 — low (typically associated with meeting or exceeding the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommended 250:1 benchmark, which correlates with stronger college and career counseling capacity)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
Plumas Unified chronic absenteeism rate is 71.7% — 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.