At $32,200 per pupil, Wilson Creek School District ranks #23 of 311 Washington districts by per-pupil spending (Washington districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
115
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$32,200
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Wilson Creek School District operates 2 public schools serving 115 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Washington. 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 Grant County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $32,200 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 32 of 311 Washington districts by per-pupil spending. See how Washington compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 9.3% local, 79.3% state, and 11.4% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
and 2.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 73.8% White, 23.7% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Wilson Creek Elementary, enrolling 60 students (51% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses held roughly steady from 2022-23 to 2023-24 (115 to 117 students, +1.7%), per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $3,764,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 57% went to instruction, 36.9% to support services, and 1.5% to capital outlay, support-services-heavy relative to typical districts, reflecting spending on transportation, administration, or student services. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Wilson Creek Elementary accounts for 50.8% of all Wilson Creek School District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Wilson Creek School District a distant remainder — means Wilson Creek School 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.
Wilson Creek School District reports 50.4% free-lunch eligibility
The reported share clears the 50% majority mark. 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.
Wilson Creek School District chronic absenteeism rate is 2.5% — 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.