At $15,556 per pupil, Valley Home Joint Elementary ranks #1266 of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Valley Home Joint Elementary operates 1 public schools serving 169 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 Stanislaus County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $15,556 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending. See how California compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 51.6% local, 41.5% state, and 6.9% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
and 21.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 56.5% White, 38.2% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Valley Home Elementary, enrolling 191 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 10.1% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (169 to 186 students), while the student-teacher ratio widened by 1.9 students per teacher, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $2,731,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 61.9% went to instruction, 33.9% to support services, and 0.1% 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.
Valley Home Elementary accounts for 100.0% of all Valley Home Joint Elementary student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Valley Home Joint Elementary a distant remainder — means Valley Home Joint Elementary-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.
Valley Home Joint Elementary chronic absenteeism rate is 21.5% — 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 Valley Home Joint Elementary is typically wider than the Valley Home Joint Elementary-aggregate figure suggests.