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Winters, California - 5 schools
An equity score of 45/100 ranks Winters Joint Unified #887 of 1517 districts in California (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $14,735 per pupil, Winters Joint Unified ranks #1020 of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
1,569
Total Enrollment
5
Schools
$14,735
Per-Pupil Spending
High, Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Winters Joint Unified operates 5 public schools serving 1,569 students, placing it among the smallest districts in California. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 high, 2 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 Yolo County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $14,735 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending. See how California compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 44.2% local, 48.7% state, and 7.1% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one. The district's equity score is 45/100, ranked #887 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.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 5 schools offering Advanced Placement (10 AP courses district-wide), a 272.3:1 student-counselor ratio, somewhat above the 250:1 ASCA recommendation, and 30.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 67.0% Hispanic or Latino, 25.2% White, 2.9% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Waggoner Elementary, with a diversity index of 52.6/100.
Its largest campus is Winters High, enrolling 479 students (29% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Wolfskill High, at 20 students, a 24x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Winters High accounts for 29.3% of all Winters Joint Unified student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Winters Joint Unified-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. 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.
Winters Joint Unified school enrollment varies 24× across entities
Winters Joint Unified school enrollment ranges from 20 students (lowest) to 479 students (highest), a spread of 459 students. That spread is wider than typical and predicts noticeable gaps in service quality between the highest and lowest areas. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Winters Joint Unified has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 58.2% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Areas above 75% eligibility receive concentration grants on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Winters Joint Unified student-counselor ratio is 272:1 — near the typical range (US average ~408) — within the typical range for U.S. public districts
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 Variation between sub-units within Winters Joint Unified is typically wider than the Winters Joint Unified-aggregate figure suggests.
Winters Joint Unified chronic absenteeism rate is 30.5% — high (typically associated with higher-than-average disruption; recent CRDC data showed elevated rates persisting after pandemic-era schooling changes)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.