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Hollister, California - 1 schools
An equity score of 11/100 ranks Southside Elementary #1505 of 1517 districts in California (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $9,813 per pupil, Southside Elementary ranks #1818 of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Southside Elementary operates 1 public schools serving 233 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 Benito County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $9,813 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the bottom 187 of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending. See how California compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 46.2% local, 46.8% state, and 7.0% 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 11/100, ranked #1505 of 1517 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.
and 12.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 67.0% Hispanic or Latino, 29.2% White, 1.1% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Southside Elementary, enrolling 267 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Southside Elementary accounts for 100.0% of all Southside Elementary student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Southside Elementary a distant remainder — means Southside Elementary-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.
Southside Elementary chronic absenteeism rate is 12.7% — 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.