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.