An equity score of 27/100 ranks Scholarship Prep - Oceanside District #1320 of 1526 districts in California (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $15,002 per pupil, Scholarship Prep - Oceanside District ranks #1387 of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Scholarship Prep - Oceanside District operates 1 public schools serving 543 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 San Diego County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $15,002 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending. See how California compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 32.5% local, 53.8% state, and 13.7% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles. The district's equity score is 27/100, ranked #1320 of 1526 in California against a state average of 50, notably less even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 626:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 12.9% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 70.0% Hispanic or Latino, 17.7% White, 5.1% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Scholarship Prep - Oceanside, enrolling 626 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses held roughly steady from 2022-23 to 2023-24 (543 to 536 students, -1.3%), per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $8,234,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 51.6% went to instruction, 41.4% to support services, and 1% to capital outlay, support-services-heavy relative to typical districts, reflecting spending on transportation, administration, or student services. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Scholarship Prep - Oceanside accounts for 100.0% of all Scholarship Prep - Oceanside District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Scholarship Prep - Oceanside District a distant remainder — means Scholarship Prep - Oceanside District-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.
Scholarship Prep - Oceanside District reports 58.4% 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.
Scholarship Prep - Oceanside District student-counselor ratio is 626:1 — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 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.
Scholarship Prep - Oceanside District chronic absenteeism rate is 12.9% — low (typically associated with lower-than-average attendance disruption; districts in this range often have attendance interventions, robust transportation, or smaller catchments that reduce barriers)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
Comparisons are relative to Scholarship Prep - Oceanside District's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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