An equity score of 62/100 ranks Southern Humboldt Joint Unified #466 of 1526 districts in California (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $18,602 per pupil, Southern Humboldt Joint Unified ranks #709 of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
708
Total Enrollment
8
Schools
$18,602
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Southern Humboldt Joint Unified operates 8 public schools serving 708 students, placing it among the smaller districts in California. The school portfolio breaks down into 3 elementary, 3 high, 1 middle, 1 combined schools, a compact enough portfolio that families can compare every campus directly before they move, rent, or enrol. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Humboldt County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $18,602 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending. See how California compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 44.3% local, 43.7% state, and 12.0% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one. The district's equity score is 62/100, ranked #466 of 1526 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 8 schools offering Advanced Placement (1 AP courses district-wide), a 374.4:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 49.6% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 55.6% White, 22.9% Hispanic or Latino, 0.3% Asian across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Casterlin Elementary, with a diversity index of 66.2/100.
Its largest campus is Redway Elementary, enrolling 272 students (42% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Casterlin High, at 4 students, a 68x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Redway Elementary accounts for 38.4% of all Southern Humboldt Joint Unified student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Southern Humboldt Joint Unified-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. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.
Southern Humboldt Joint Unified school enrollment varies 68× across entities
Southern Humboldt Joint Unified school enrollment ranges from 4 students (lowest) to 272 students (highest), a spread of 268 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
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.
Southern Humboldt Joint Unified student-counselor ratio is 374:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Southern Humboldt Joint Unified chronic absenteeism rate is 49.6% — 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 Southern Humboldt Joint Unified's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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