At $32,273 per pupil, Pope Valley Union Elementary ranks #73 of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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Total Enrollment
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Schools
$32,273
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Pope Valley Union Elementary operates 1 public schools serving 55 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 Napa County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $32,273 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 83.9% local, 14.8% state, and 1.2% 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 56.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 76.1% Hispanic or Latino, 23.9% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Pope Valley Elementary, enrolling 46 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Pope Valley Elementary accounts for 83.6% of all Pope Valley Union Elementary student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Pope Valley Union Elementary a distant remainder — means Pope Valley Union 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.
Pope Valley Union Elementary reports 76.4% free-lunch eligibility
The reported share is at least 75%, indicating a high concentration of measured economic need. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Pope Valley Union Elementary chronic absenteeism rate is 56.5% — 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.