About Western Placer Unified School District
Western Placer Unified School District is a public school system serving Placer County, California, based in Lincoln. It serves 8,052 students across 14 schools spanning K–12, and is classified as a suburb: large district. By enrollment it is the #188 largest of California’s 1976 school systems.
Size and structure
Western Placer Unified School District enrolls 8,052 students in 14 schools — an average of about 575 students per school. It serves grades K–12 and ranks #188 of 1976 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Western Placer Unified School District, from the NCES Common Core of Data (8,052 students reported):
For economically-disadvantaged, English-learner, and special-education shares, plus school-by-school detail, see the federal sources in the full-data section.
Teachers & staff
Western Placer Unified School District employs about 352 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 22.9:1 — above the California average of about 21.7:1. Total district staff is roughly 807.
Counselor and librarian/media counts are not published at the district level in the current NCES release; see the federal full-data links for staffing detail.
How California funds schools
District-level per-pupil spending and the local/state/federal revenue split for Western Placer Unified School District are published in the federal school-finance files — see the full-data links below for the current figures.
Report card & state results
California reports school and district performance on the California School Dashboard, which rates indicators from red to blue across academic performance in English and math, chronic absenteeism, graduation rate, suspension rate, English-learner progress and college-and-career readiness. Look up Western Placer Unified School District on the California School Dashboard.
Accreditation status
In California, most schools that seek K–12 accreditation use ACS WASC (the Accrediting Commission for Schools, Western Association of Schools and Colleges) rather than Cognia. Search Western Placer Unified School District’s schools in the ACS WASC directory.
Western Placer Unified School District vs. California
See every California district side by side in the California directory.
Look up Western Placer Unified School District’s full data
These official sources carry the district-level detail — finances, discipline, equity, test scores, boundaries. Direct links for this district (via its NCES ID):