At $11,527 per pupil, Village Charter District ranks #1817 of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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Total Enrollment
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$11,527
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Village Charter District operates 1 public schools serving 93 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 Sonoma County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $11,527 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 53.2% local, 46.3% state, and 0.5% 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 5.9% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 53.0% White, 25.6% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Village Charter, enrolling 118 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 21.5% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (93 to 113 students), while the student-teacher ratio widened by 23.3 students per teacher, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $1,204,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 64% went to instruction, 25% to support services, and 0% 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.
Village Charter accounts for 100.0% of all Village Charter District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Village Charter District a distant remainder — means Village 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.
Village Charter District chronic absenteeism rate is 5.9% — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 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.