At $30,086 per pupil, Starbuck School District ranks #29 of 311 Washington districts by per-pupil spending (Washington districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
185
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$30,086
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Starbuck School District operates 2 public schools serving 185 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Washington. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined, 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 Columbia County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $30,086 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 1.7% local, 93.8% state, and 4.6% 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 748:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, . Demographically, the student body averages 57.9% White, 19.9% Hispanic or Latino, 5.8% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Virtual Preparatory Academy of Washington, enrolling 748 students (98% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Starbuck School, at 17 students, a 44x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Virtual Preparatory Academy of Washington accounts for 97.8% of all Starbuck School District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Starbuck School District a distant remainder — means Starbuck School District-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: combined. 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.
Starbuck School District student-counselor ratio is 748:1 — 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.
Starbuck School District has 2 schools, including 1 combined, 1 elementary. Total enrollment is 185 students.
How much does Starbuck School District spend per student?
Starbuck School District spends $30,086 per student.
What is the demographic composition of Starbuck School District?
Starbuck School District students are 57.9% White, 19.9% Hispanic or Latino, 5.8% African American, 2.6% Asian, averaged across 2 schools. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.