At $26,211 per pupil, Puc Early College Acad for Leaders&Scholars(Ecals) District ranks #147 of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Puc Early College Acad for Leaders&Scholars(Ecals) District operates 1 public schools serving 199 students, placing it among the smallest districts in California. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 high 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 Los Angeles County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $26,211 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 20.7% local, 55.9% state, and 23.4% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
a 195:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 58.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 97.4% Hispanic or Latino, 2.1% White, 0.5% African American across the district's schools.
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 8% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (199 to 215 students), while the student-teacher ratio widened by 4.4 students per teacher, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $5,286,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 61.1% went to instruction, 34.8% to support services, and 0% to capital outlay, a fairly typical instruction/support/capital split for a public school district. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Puc Early College Academy for Leaders and Scholars (Ecals) accounts for 98.0% of all Puc Early College Acad for Leaders&Scholars(Ecals) District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Puc Early College Acad for Leaders&Scholars(Ecals) District a distant remainder — means Puc Early College Acad for Leaders&Scholars(Ecals) District-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: high. 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.
Puc Early College Acad for Leaders&Scholars(Ecals) District reports 90.5% free-lunch eligibility
The reported share is above 87.5%, so economic need is widespread across the measured student population. 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.
Puc Early College Acad for Leaders&Scholars(Ecals) District student-counselor ratio is 195:1 — 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.
Puc Early College Acad for Leaders&Scholars(Ecals) District chronic absenteeism rate is 58.5% — 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.
Comparisons are relative to Puc Early College Acad for Leaders&Scholars(Ecals) District'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 Puc Early College Acad for Leaders&Scholars(Ecals) District?
Puc Early College Acad for Leaders&Scholars(Ecals) District has 1 school, including 1 high. Total enrollment is 199 students.
How much does Puc Early College Acad for Leaders&Scholars(Ecals) District spend per student?
Puc Early College Acad for Leaders&Scholars(Ecals) District spends $26,211 per student.
What is the demographic composition of Puc Early College Acad for Leaders&Scholars(Ecals) District?
Puc Early College Acad for Leaders&Scholars(Ecals) District students are 97.4% Hispanic or Latino, 2.1% White, 0.5% African American, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.