At $11,854 per pupil, Sycamore Creek Community Charter District ranks #1794 of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
157
Total Enrollment
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$11,854
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Sycamore Creek Community Charter District operates 1 public schools serving 157 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 Orange County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $11,854 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the bottom 188 of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending. See how California compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 59.8% local, 31.9% state, and 8.3% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
a 632:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 17.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 36.7% White, 34.8% Hispanic or Latino, 8.9% Asian across the district's schools.
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 3.2% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (157 to 162 students), while the student-teacher ratio widened by 3.5 students per teacher, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $2,029,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 54.9% went to instruction, 31.6% to support services, and 8.2% to capital outlay, a fairly typical instruction/support/capital split for a public school district. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Sycamore Creek Community Charter accounts for 100.0% of all Sycamore Creek Community Charter District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Sycamore Creek Community Charter District a distant remainder — means Sycamore Creek Community Charter District-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. 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.
Sycamore Creek Community Charter District student-counselor ratio is 632:1 — 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.
Sycamore Creek Community Charter District chronic absenteeism rate is 17.7% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
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 Variation between sub-units within Sycamore Creek Community Charter District is typically wider than the Sycamore Creek Community Charter District-aggregate figure suggests.
Comparisons are relative to Sycamore Creek Community Charter District's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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How many schools are in Sycamore Creek Community Charter District?
Sycamore Creek Community Charter District has 1 school, including 1 elementary. Total enrollment is 157 students.
How much does Sycamore Creek Community Charter District spend per student?
Sycamore Creek Community Charter District spends $11,854 per student.
What is the demographic composition of Sycamore Creek Community Charter District?
Sycamore Creek Community Charter District students are 36.7% White, 34.8% Hispanic or Latino, 8.9% Asian, 1.9% African American, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.