At $32,818 per pupil, Stony Creek Joint Unified ranks #68 of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
88
Total Enrollment
4
Schools
$32,818
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Stony Creek Joint Unified operates 4 public schools serving 88 students, placing it among the smallest districts in California. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 elementary, 2 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 Glenn County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $32,818 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 188 of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending. See how California compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 21.1% local, 48.8% state, and 30.1% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
a 71.3:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 42.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 26.1% White, 18.9% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Elk Creek Elementary, enrolling 34 students (40% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Bidwell Point High (Continuation), at 4 students, a 9x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses fell 19.3% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (88 to 71 students), and the student-teacher ratio tightened by 2.3 students per teacher as staffing held steadier than enrollment, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $3,630,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 44.7% went to instruction, 31.5% to support services, and 18.8% to capital outlay, a capital-heavy year, consistent with active construction, renovation, or major equipment purchases. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Elk Creek Elementary accounts for 38.6% of all Stony Creek Joint Unified student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Stony Creek 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.
Stony Creek Joint Unified school enrollment varies 8.5× across entities
Stony Creek Joint Unified school enrollment ranges from 4 students (lowest) to 34 students (highest), a spread of 30 students. That spread reflects typical mixed-portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Stony Creek Joint Unified reports 56.6% free-lunch eligibility
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.
Stony Creek Joint Unified student-counselor ratio is 71:1 — 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.
Stony Creek Joint Unified chronic absenteeism rate is 42.3% — 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.