Enrollment of Students with Disabilities

Humboldt County exceeds California's percentage of students with disabilities, reporting 174.4 students with disabilities per 1,000 compared to the average of 130.3 for California per 1,000 per capita (source: kidsdata.org, 2018-2020). Despite the nearly 5% decline in overall enrollment beginning in 2018-2019 with 18,170 students to 2021-2022 with 17,608 students, Humboldt has reported a consistent increase in the percentage of students with disabilities from 16.2% in 2016-17 to 18.6% in 2020-21. The state also displays a trend of a slight increase in the percentage of students with disabilities, but Humboldt's increase of 2.4% in this time period is double the overall 1.2% increase for the State in the same time period.