Per-pupil spending
District · current expense$11,965 per pupil
NCES F-33 · FY 2020–21 (2021) · fall district membership: 29,908 pupils
California · selected district mean$14,491 per pupil
NCES F-33 · FY 2020–21 (2021) · SchoolScope’s unweighted mean across 818 selected California district finance records
District current expense · FY 2024–25$19,016 per ADA
CDE SACS Current Expense of Education · district fiscal year ending 2025 · average daily attendance denominator
How the California mean was selected
SchoolScope starts with its selected California finance records, not every NCES California district. For FY 2020–21, it calculates an unweighted mean of NCES F-33 current expense per pupil. District records contribute once, regardless of enrollment. The calculation keeps records with positive per-pupil current expense, enrollment over 100, CCD agency type 1, and a recorded district name; it excludes names ending in County Office of Education, Department of Education, or Superintendent of Schools. This is a SchoolScope calculation, not a state-published spending average.