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Literacy First Charter District
A public school district in El Cajon, California, with 1 operational school in 2024–25.
The district in 2024–25
- 2,160
- Students enrolled
- 95.9
- Teachers, full-time equivalent
- Derived by NCES from the state’s counts.
- 199.4
- All staff, full-time equivalent
- $12,951
- Spending per pupil, fiscal year 2023
- Current expenditure over fall membership, both as the district reported them.
How this compares
- Students enrolled: 2,160 in 2024–25
- Ranks 4,281st of 17,800 districts by enrollment, and 468th of 1,976 in California. Larger than 75% of the 17,800 districts in the fifty states and DC that report an enrollment. The ranking →
- Current spending per pupil: $12,951 in fiscal year 2023
- More than 25% of the 17,189 districts with a spending figure. Current spending leaves out buildings and debt, and a district of a few pupils can spend far more per pupil than any large one.
Spending and revenue
Literacy First Charter District spent $14,706 per pupil in fiscal year 2024, against $9,890 in fiscal year 2019
Current spending per pupil, each fiscal year: current expenditure over fall membership, both as the district reported them to NCES. In the dollars of each year, not adjusted for inflation. A year with no column is a year the survey has no figure for.
Source: NCES
About this chart
The figures
| Fiscal year | Spending per pupil | Current expenditure | Membership |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024 | $14,706 | $30.1 million | 2,050 |
| FY2023 | $12,951 | $25.5 million | 1,972 |
| FY2022 | $11,024 | $21.4 million | 1,945 |
| FY2021 | $10,619 | $19.8 million | 1,862 |
| FY2020 | $10,059 | $17.9 million | 1,783 |
| FY2019 | $9,890 | $16.6 million | 1,678 |
Revenue by source, fiscal year 2023
| Source | Revenue | Share of total |
|---|---|---|
| Federal | $1.7 million | 5.3% |
| State | $24.6 million | 75.6% |
| Local | $6.2 million | 19.1% |
| Total | $32.6 million |
Federal, state and local revenue as the F-33 records them. Each share is of the survey’s total revenue, so a part withheld does not inflate the others.
The district’s schools
1 operational school, A to Z.
2 more columns on a wider screen
| School | Students |
|---|---|
| Literacy First Charter | 2,160 |
The district’s entry
- Status
- Open
- Type
- Independent charter district
- Charter status
- LEA for federal programs
- Grades
- Kindergarten to Grade 12
- NCES district ID
- 0602098
Elsewhere
- Public schools in California — enrollment, teachers and spending across the state, against the nation.
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Sources
- Common Core of Data (CCD), 2024–25 — National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education · U.S. Government work · retrieved September 30, 2026
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), 2024–25.
- School District Finance Survey (F-33), fiscal years 2019 to 2024
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "School District Finance Survey (F-33)," fiscal years 2019 to 2024.
Compiled automatically from Common Core of Data (CCD), 2024–25 and School District Finance Survey (F-33), fiscal years 2019 to 2024 by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built
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