An equity score of 58/100 ranks Tulelake Basin Joint Unified #565 of 1526 districts in California (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $19,165 per pupil, Tulelake Basin Joint Unified ranks #608 of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
411
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$19,165
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Tulelake Basin Joint Unified operates 2 public schools serving 411 students, placing it among the smallest districts in California. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary, 1 combined 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 Siskiyou County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $19,165 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 26.2% local, 63.7% state, and 10.1% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles. The district's equity score is 58/100, ranked #565 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.
a 239.5:1 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 77.5% Hispanic or Latino, 17.9% White, 0.3% Asian across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Tulelake Basin Elementary, enrolling 270 students (56% of the district's total enrollment).
Tulelake Basin Elementary accounts for 56.4% of all Tulelake Basin Joint Unified student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Tulelake Basin Joint Unified a distant remainder — means Tulelake Basin 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. 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.
The reported share sits between 62.5% and 75%, above a simple majority but below the highest descriptive band used here. 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.
Tulelake Basin Joint Unified student-counselor ratio is 240:1 — low (typically associated with meeting or exceeding the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommended 250:1 benchmark, which correlates with stronger college and career counseling capacity)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
Tulelake Basin 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.