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El Segundo, California - 5 schools
An equity score of 25/100 ranks Wiseburn Unified #1349 of 1517 districts in California (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $13,605 per pupil, Wiseburn Unified ranks #1303 of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
2,491
Total Enrollment
5
Schools
$13,605
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, Middle
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Wiseburn Unified operates 5 public schools serving 2,491 students, placing it among the smallest districts in California. The school portfolio breaks down into 3 elementary, 1 middle, 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 Los Angeles County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $13,605 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 56.7% local, 35.2% state, and 8.1% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers. The district's equity score is 25/100, ranked #1349 of 1517 in California against a state average of 50, notably less even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 650.5:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 16.2% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 52.9% Hispanic or Latino, 21.2% White, 8.3% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Juan De Anza Elementary, with a diversity index of 70.7/100.
Its largest campus is Richard Henry Dana Middle, enrolling 953 students (38% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Success Learning Center, at 14 students, a 68x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Richard Henry Dana Middle accounts for 37.6% of all Wiseburn Unified student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Wiseburn Unified-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: middle. 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.
Wiseburn Unified school enrollment varies 68× across entities
Wiseburn Unified school enrollment ranges from 14 students (lowest) to 953 students (highest), a spread of 939 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Wiseburn Unified student-counselor ratio is 651:1 — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.
Wiseburn Unified chronic absenteeism rate is 16.2% — 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 Wiseburn Unified is typically wider than the Wiseburn Unified-aggregate figure suggests.