At $53,778 per pupil, Shaw Island School District ranks #4 of 311 Washington districts by per-pupil spending (Washington districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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Total Enrollment
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$53,778
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Shaw Island School District operates 1 public schools serving 9 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 San Juan County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $53,778 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 32 of 311 Washington districts by per-pupil spending. See how Washington compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 1.5% local, 82.9% state, and 15.6% 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 4:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, . Demographically, the student body averages 87.5% White, 12.5% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Shaw Island Elementary School, enrolling 8 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Shaw Island Elementary School accounts for 88.9% of all Shaw Island School District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Shaw Island School District a distant remainder — means Shaw Island School 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.
Shaw Island School District student-counselor ratio is 4:1 — 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.