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Willits Elementary Charter

· Mendocino County · Willits Unified · Public

Public Mendocino County 🏛 Willits Unified → CDS 2365623…
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📘Top 8 ELA proficiency in Mendocino 🧮Top 7 Math proficiency in Mendocino

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Programs & features
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Academic signals
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Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

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How Willits Elementary Charter compares for families

What families should know about Willits Elementary Charter.

  • Locally📘 Top 8 in Mendocino County on ELA proficiency — plus 1 more top-rank.
  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Willits Charter, Redwood Collegiate Academy, La Vida Charter and 2 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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Chronic absenteeism — 2024-25

Share of students missing 10% or more of expected attendance — the leading indicator that often precedes the demand decline shown above. Families disengaging tend to raise absenteeism first, then formally leave. Basis: total enrollment.

Chronic absent
26.4%
39 of 148 students

Absenteeism is up 8.4 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.

Mendocino County median
29.5% · school is better than 59% of 17 HS
Statewide median
20.9%
Chronic absenteeism by year (raw %)

Source: California Department of Education, Chronic Absenteeism 2024-25. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥100 eligible students. CDE didn't publish a usable 2019-20 file (COVID).

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment
142 (2018)141 (2026)
-0.7%

If this trend holds (+0.3%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~141 +0 $0
3 yr (2029) ~142 +1 $0
5 yr (2031) ~143 +2 $0

Straight-line extrapolation of the recent annual rate — a what-if, not a forecast of intent. Default = California's LCFF base grant for grades 9–12 ($12,423/ADA). Edit the figure to match your school.

Willits Elementary Charter — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • We don't yet have enough UC-outcome or enrollment history for Willits Elementary Charter to build a full trend — but its similar-school comparison is below.

Enrollment projection

141 students (2026)
~141 projected (2029)
at -0.1%/yr

Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools

School Type Size UC Reach Enroll. trend
Willits Elementary Charter Public 141
Peer-group median 16.0% -17%
Willits Charter Public 131 -29%
Redwood Collegiate Academy Public 129 16.0% -8%
La Vida Charter Public 60 -17%
Sequoia Career Academy Public 127 -48%
Ukiah Independent Study Academy Public 120 +0%
South Valley High (continuation) Public 119 -30%
Willits High School Public 409 5.9% +11%
Tree Of Life Charter Public 97
Mendocino High School Public 159 63.0% -25%
Potter Valley High School Public 70 +43%

UC Reach = top-6 UC admits ÷ senior class (can exceed 100% when students are admitted to multiple campuses). Enrollment trend = first-to-latest grade-12 change on file. Similar schools matched on proximity, size, type. Methodology →

Enrollment stability & demand — 2024-25

Two complementary signals: retention (do students stay once enrolled?) and demand (are families choosing the school?). Read against the Mendocino County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.

Stability rate
93.9%
139 of 148 students

9 of 148 students who enrolled at Willits Elementary Charter this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (6.1% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Mendocino County median
85.5% · school is in the 88th percentile of 17 HS
Statewide median
88.7% · in the 81st percentile of 2,648 HS

Stability by student group

White (99) 97.0%
Socio. disadvantaged (82) 91.5%
Students w/ disabilities (38) 100.0%
Hispanic / Latino (34) 82.4%

Nearest peer high schools

Willits Charter 76.8% Redwood Collegiate Academy 83.8% La Vida Charter 58.1% Sequoia Career Academy 62.9% Ukiah Independent Study Academy 51.1%

Source: California Department of Education, Stability Rate 2024-25. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥100 cumulative enrollees so by-design-high-churn continuation schools don't dominate the bottom of the distribution. Cumulative enrollment counts every student on the rolls during the year, so it can exceed peak-day enrollment.

District financial profile — Willits Unified (FY2020)

From 4 years of NCES F-33 filings (the federally-mandated district finance survey). Public schools don't have their own books — the district does. These figures show the financial scale, revenue dependence, instruction-vs-overhead mix, and long-term debt that shape what a school can sustain.

Total revenue
$25.2M
+11.4% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$16,745
1,504 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 57.1%
Local: 28.8%
Federal: 14.2%
Instruction share
52.2%
of current spending · $7,657/pupil
Long-term debt
$14.8M
+15.4% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($M)
Total expenditure by year ($M)

Source: NCES F-33 Annual Survey of School System Finances (Urban Institute Education Data API). Latest year currently published: FY2020. F-33 is a district-level federal filing — it reflects the Willits Unified as a whole, not this individual school's books. Revenue mix shows where the district's dollars come from (state aid dominates in CA via LCFF). Instruction share is current expenditure on instruction ÷ total current expenditure (national benchmark ~60%). Long-term debt is end-of-year outstanding (mostly facilities bonds).

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