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Oakhurst, California - 7 schools
An equity score of 46/100 ranks Yosemite Unified #870 of 1517 districts in California (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $15,716 per pupil, Yosemite Unified ranks #804 of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
1,385
Total Enrollment
7
Schools
$15,716
Per-Pupil Spending
High, Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Yosemite Unified operates 7 public schools serving 1,385 students, placing it among the smallest districts in California. The school portfolio breaks down into 4 high, 2 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 Madera County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $15,716 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending. See how California compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 41.5% local, 46.5% state, and 12.0% 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 46/100, ranked #870 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 7 schools offering Advanced Placement (5 AP courses district-wide), a 411.8:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 68.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 59.4% White, 27.5% Hispanic or Latino, 0.9% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Coarsegold Elementary, with a diversity index of 66.0/100.
Its largest campus is Yosemite High, enrolling 542 students (39% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Raymond Granite High, at 4 students, a 136x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Yosemite High accounts for 39.1% of all Yosemite Unified student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Yosemite 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.
Yosemite Unified school enrollment varies 136× across entities
Yosemite Unified school enrollment ranges from 4 students (lowest) to 542 students (highest), a spread of 538 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.
Yosemite Unified has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 51.9% 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.
Yosemite Unified student-counselor ratio is 412:1 — 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.
Yosemite Unified chronic absenteeism rate is 68.7% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 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.