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Forks, Washington - 1 schools
At $20,184 per pupil, Queets-Clearwater School District ranks #73 of 309 Washington districts by per-pupil spending (Washington districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Queets-Clearwater School District operates 1 public schools serving 40 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Washington. 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 Jefferson County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $20,184 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 309 Washington districts by per-pupil spending. See how Washington compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 7.1% local, 52.7% state, and 40.2% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
and 40.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 8.1% White, 2.7% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Queets-Clearwater Elementary, enrolling 37 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Queets-Clearwater Elementary accounts for 92.5% of all Queets-Clearwater School District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Queets-Clearwater School District a distant remainder — means Queets-Clearwater School District-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.
Queets-Clearwater School District has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 97.5% 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). Eligibility here is a supermajority of the population — well past the 75% concentration-grant threshold that unlocks extra funding 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.
Queets-Clearwater School District chronic absenteeism rate is 40.5% — high (typically associated with higher-than-average disruption; recent CRDC data showed elevated rates persisting after pandemic-era schooling changes)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Comparisons are relative to Queets-Clearwater School District's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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