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Woodside, California - 1 schools
An equity score of 74/100 ranks Woodside Elementary #191 of 1517 districts in California (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $35,732 per pupil, Woodside Elementary ranks #39 of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
371
Total Enrollment
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$35,732
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Woodside Elementary operates 1 public schools serving 371 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 San Mateo County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $35,732 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 187 of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending. See how California compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 88.9% local, 10.3% state, and 0.8% 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 74/100, ranked #191 of 1517 in California against a state average of 50, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 385:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 17.9% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 62.6% White, 17.7% Hispanic or Latino, 6.2% Asian across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Woodside Elementary, enrolling 385 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Woodside Elementary accounts for 100.0% of all Woodside Elementary student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Woodside Elementary a distant remainder — means Woodside Elementary-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: elementary. 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.
Woodside Elementary student-counselor ratio is 385:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Woodside Elementary chronic absenteeism rate is 17.9% — 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 Woodside Elementary is typically wider than the Woodside Elementary-aggregate figure suggests.