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Santa Barbara, California - 3 schools
86
Total Enrollment
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Santa Barbara County Office of Education operates 3 public schools serving 86 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 Santa Barbara County.
The funding mix is 57.5% local, 22.0% state, and 20.5% 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 52.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 90.8% Hispanic or Latino, 4.8% White, 2.0% Asian across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Santa Barbara County Special Education, with a diversity index of 25.8/100.
Santa Barbara County Special Education accounts for 45.8% of all Santa Barbara County Office of Education student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Santa Barbara County Office of Education a distant remainder — means Santa Barbara County Office of Education-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. 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.
Santa Barbara County Office of Education has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 72.7% 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 approaching the 75% concentration-grant threshold; it does not yet unlock the extra funding tier but sits meaningfully above the baseline 50% majority mark. 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.
Santa Barbara County Office of Education chronic absenteeism rate is 52.0% — 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 Santa Barbara 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 Santa Barbara County Office of Education?
Santa Barbara County Office of Education has 3 schools, including 3 combined. Total enrollment is 86 students.
What is the demographic composition of Santa Barbara County Office of Education?
Santa Barbara County Office of Education students are 90.8% Hispanic or Latino, 4.8% White, 2.0% Asian, averaged across 3 schools. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.