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Avery, California - 4 schools
An equity score of 48/100 ranks Vallecito Union #823 of 1517 districts in California (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $16,676 per pupil, Vallecito Union ranks #593 of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
590
Total Enrollment
4
Schools
$16,676
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, Middle
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Vallecito Union operates 4 public schools serving 590 students, placing it among the smallest districts in California. The school portfolio breaks down into 3 elementary, 1 middle 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 Calaveras County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $16,676 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending. See how California compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 73.5% local, 13.5% state, and 13.0% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers. The district's equity score is 48/100, ranked #823 of 1517 in California against a state average of 50, in line with the typical spread seen across the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 249.5:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 43.9% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 72.2% White, 18.5% Hispanic or Latino, 1.2% Asian across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Avery Middle, with a diversity index of 48.3/100.
Albert a. Michelson Elementary accounts for 37.7% of all Vallecito Union student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Vallecito Union-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.
Vallecito Union school enrollment varies 75× across entities
Vallecito Union school enrollment ranges from 3 students (lowest) to 226 students (highest), a spread of 223 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Vallecito Union student-counselor ratio is 250:1 — 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.
Vallecito Union chronic absenteeism rate is 43.9% — 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.