At $15,073 per pupil, West Side Union Elementary ranks #1364 of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
137
Total Enrollment
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$15,073
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
West Side Union Elementary operates 1 public schools serving 137 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 $15,073 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 81.4% local, 16.0% state, and 2.6% 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 9.2% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 73.8% White, 20.0% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is West Side Elementary, enrolling 130 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
West Side Elementary accounts for 94.9% of all West Side Union Elementary student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of West Side Union Elementary a distant remainder — means West Side Union 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.
West Side Union Elementary chronic absenteeism rate is 9.2% — 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.