San Joaquin County Office of Education operates 3 public schools serving 1,778 students, placing it among the smallest districts in California. The school portfolio breaks down into 3 combined 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 San Joaquin County.
The funding mix is 34.0% local, 47.2% state, and 18.8% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
a 130.4:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 67.2% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 52.2% Hispanic or Latino, 15.2% African American, 14.5% White across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is San Joaquin County Special Education, with a diversity index of 71.1/100.
Its largest campus is San Joaquin County Community, enrolling 1,021 students (52% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is John F. Cruikshank Jr., at 46 students, a 22x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
San Joaquin County Community accounts for 51.8% of all San Joaquin County Office of Education student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of San Joaquin County Office of Education a distant remainder — means San Joaquin County Office of Education-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: combined. 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.
San Joaquin County Office of Education school enrollment varies 22× across entities
San Joaquin County Office of Education school enrollment ranges from 46 students (lowest) to 1,021 students (highest), a spread of 975 students. That spread is wider than typical and predicts noticeable gaps in service quality between the highest and lowest areas. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
San Joaquin County Office of Education reports 58.8% free-lunch eligibility
The reported share clears the 50% majority mark. 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.
San Joaquin County Office of Education student-counselor ratio is 130:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
San Joaquin County Office of Education chronic absenteeism rate is 67.2% — 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 San Joaquin County Office of Education'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 San Joaquin County Office of Education?
San Joaquin County Office of Education has 3 schools, including 3 combined. Total enrollment is 1,778 students.
What is the demographic composition of San Joaquin County Office of Education?
San Joaquin County Office of Education students are 52.2% Hispanic or Latino, 15.2% African American, 14.5% White, 10.5% Asian, averaged across 3 schools. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.