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Tomales, California - 5 schools
An equity score of 73/100 ranks Shoreline Unified #209 of 1517 districts in California (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $36,707 per pupil, Shoreline Unified ranks #35 of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
470
Total Enrollment
5
Schools
$36,707
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Shoreline Unified operates 5 public schools serving 470 students, placing it among the smallest districts in California. The school portfolio breaks down into 4 elementary, 1 high 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 Marin County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $36,707 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 187 of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending. See how California compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 68.1% local, 16.4% state, and 15.4% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers. The district's equity score is 73/100, ranked #209 of 1517 in California against a state average of 50, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 5 schools offering Advanced Placement (8 AP courses district-wide), a 144:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 55.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 66.2% Hispanic or Latino, 29.5% White, 0.3% Asian across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Inverness Elementary, with a diversity index of 50.9/100.
Its largest campus is Tomales Elementary, enrolling 160 students (34% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Bodega Bay Elementary, at 27 students, a 6x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Tomales Elementary accounts for 34.0% of all Shoreline Unified student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Shoreline Unified-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.
Shoreline Unified school enrollment varies 5.9× across entities
Shoreline Unified school enrollment ranges from 27 students (lowest) to 160 students (highest), a spread of 133 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Shoreline Unified student-counselor ratio is 144:1 — 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.
Shoreline Unified chronic absenteeism rate is 55.5% — 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.