Del Norte Unified School District is a

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serving

Del Norte County ), in California , seat_type = County seat , seat = Crescent City , parts_type = Largest city , parts = Crescent City , unit_pref = US , area_total_sq_mi = 1230 , area_land_sq_mi = 1006 , area_water_sq_mi = 223 , elevation_max_footnote ...

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, United States. It has an enrollment of 3,679 students across eleven schools: eight elementary schools, a middle school, and two high schools. The superintendent is Jeff Harris. Del Norte High School and Crescent Elk Middle School, within the district, are among the few schools that provide instruction in the Yurok language. Its attendance boundary is the same as the borders of the county.

Demographics

As of 2016-17, the district had a total enrollment of 3,679 students with 160.47 classroom teachers , for a

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of 22.93. Of those 3,679 students, 65.7 percent of them qualified for free or reduced lunch under the

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. 7.6 percent of students were enrolled in English as a second or foreign language classes. The district is primarily

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(63 percent), with small Native American (7 percent),

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(3 percent),

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(2 percent) and

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(6 percent) minorities. 19 percent of students are

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. As of 2018, the district has a very high chronic absentee rate, 20.9 percent.

Schools

High schools

* Del Norte High School * Sunset High School

Middle schools

* Crescent Elk Middle School

Elementary schools

* Bess Maxwell Elementary School * Joe Hamilton Elementary School * Margaret Keating Elementary School * Mary Peacock Elementary School * Mountain Elementary School * PIne Grove Elementary School * Redwood Elementary School * Smith River Elementary School

References

External links

* {{official website, https://www.dnusd.org/ School districts in California