Arcata Elementary 鈥� Humboldt County, CA: Schools & Enrollment

Key statistics

472

Students enrolled

2

Public schools

28

Classroom teachers (FTE)

16.6:1

Students per teacher

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data. School year: 2024-25.

Students

By grade

Kindergarten 61
Grade 1 37
Grade 2 36
Grade 3 35
Grade 4 31
Grade 5 40
Grade 6 70
Grade 7 78
Grade 8 84

By race/ethnicity

White 50%
Hispanic/Latino 24%
Two or more races 16%
American Indian or Alaska Native 4%
Asian 3%
Black or African American 2%
Race not reported <1%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (fall membership), school year 2024-25. Race/ethnicity as reported by the state.

Free and reduced-price lunch

67% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 315 of 472 students in the district's schools

Free lunch 60%
Reduced-price lunch 6%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, school year 2024-25. Eligibility as reported by the state. Schools that serve free meals to every student may count all of them as eligible, so figures are not comparable from state to state.

Spending and revenue

$19,252 spent per student on day-to-day operations California median: $19,068 per student

Spending per student

Instruction $11,495
Support services $6,505
Other (food service, etc.) $1,252

Where the money comes from

Local 29%
State 57%
Federal 14%

Total revenue $25.4 milliontotal spending $24.2 million

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, School District Finance Survey (F-33), school year 2023-24. Day-to-day spending is NCES's current expenditures: it leaves out construction, equipment, debt and payments to charter or private schools. Per student is per fall enrollment of that year. Some figures for this district are NCES estimates.

District details

Grades served

KG to 12

Locale (NCES)

Town: Remote

Total staff (FTE)

85

District office

1435 Buttermilk Ln., Arcata CA 95521

Phone

(707) 822-0351

County

Humboldt County

Official website

NCES District ID

603000

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About Arcata Elementary

Description provided by the district or community 鈥� not part of the NCES dataset.

Arcata School District, located in the city of Arcata in Humboldt County, on the northern coast of California, is a K-8 district comprised of two schools, Arcata Elementary School and Sunny Brae Middle School. Our total enrollment for 2010-2011 is approximately 514 students. We are small enough to maintain close relationships with our students and parents and big enough to offer a wide array of fabulous programs and courses which appeal to our school community's desire for unique academic and extra-curricular offerings.