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Alameda Unified schools

Alameda Unified’s 11 public elementary schools run from the 38th to the 95th percentile among the 5,726 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests).

Elementary · 11 schools

from 38th to 95th · among 5,726 California elementary schools we score · spring 2026 tests

  • Frank Otis Elementary: 95th percentile, Strong
  • Bay Farm: 95th percentile, Strong
  • Amelia Earhart Elementary: 92nd percentile, Strong
  • Edison Elementary: 92nd percentile, Strong
  • Maya Lin: 88th percentile, Strong
  • Franklin Elementary: 82nd percentile, Strong
  • Love Elementary: 72nd percentile, Solid
  • Nea Community Learning Center: 66th percentile, Solid
  • William G. Paden Elementary: 66th percentile, Solid
  • The Academy of Alameda: 65th percentile, Solid
  • Ruby Bridges Elementary: 38th percentile, Developing
0Needs Support
1Developing
4Solid
6Strong

One dot per school.

Middle and high school pictures

Middle · 6 schools

from 46th to 95th · among 2,529 California middle schools we score · spring 2026 tests

  • Lincoln Middle: 95th percentile, Strong
  • Encinal Junior/Senior High: 68th percentile, Solid
  • Alameda Community Learning Center: 65th percentile, Solid
  • Will C. Wood Middle: 57th percentile, Solid
  • Nea Community Learning Center: 51st percentile, Solid
  • The Academy of Alameda: 46th percentile, Developing
0Needs Support
1Developing
4Solid
1Strong

High · 4 schools

from 47th to 95th · among 1,498 California high schools we score · spring 2025 tests

  • Alameda Science and Technology Institute: 95th percentile, Strong
  • Alameda High: 87th percentile, Strong
  • Encinal Junior/Senior High: 76th percentile, Strong
  • Alameda Community Learning Center: 47th percentile, Developing
0Needs Support
1Developing
0Solid
3Strong

One dot per school. Each stage is placed only among California schools at its own level. 4 of the 17 ranked schools teach two levels, so they appear in more than one picture.

  • 17 ranked schools
  • 1 school not ranked statewide

Schools around Alameda Unified

18 listed public schools with mapped locations.

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Percentile among California schools at the same level

  • Strong75th+
  • Solid50–74th
  • Developing25–49th
  • Needs Supportbelow 25th
  • Not scored

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Elementary schools

Which elementary schools in Alameda Unified score highest?

Frank Otis Elementary and Bay Farm are highest, both at the 95th percentile.

That’s higher than 95 in 100 of the 5,726 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests).

Highest in Alameda Unified

Each percentile compares a school with California schools at its own level. What patterns mean

Show the other 8 elementary schools
Context

The average elementary school in Alameda Unified had 12 in 100 students chronically absent (missed 10% or more of school days) in 2025–26; the average California elementary school we score had 17 in 100. Both are averages of school rates, each school counted once.

Middle schools

Which middle schools in Alameda Unified score highest?

Lincoln Middle is highest, at the 95th percentile.

That’s higher than 95 in 100 of the 2,529 California middle schools we score (spring 2026 tests).

Highest in Alameda Unified

Each percentile compares a school with California schools at its own level. What patterns mean

Show the other 3 middle schools
Context

The average middle school in Alameda Unified had 16 in 100 students chronically absent in 2025–26; the average California middle school we score had 18 in 100.

High schools

Which high schools in Alameda Unified score highest?

Alameda Science and Technology Institute is highest, at the 95th percentile.

That’s higher than 95 in 100 of the 1,498 California high schools we score (spring 2025 tests).

Highest in Alameda Unified

Each percentile compares a school with California schools at its own level. What patterns mean

Show the other 1 high school
Context

The average high school in Alameda Unified had 13 in 100 students chronically absent in 2025–26; the average California high school we score had 22 in 100.

1 high school not ranked statewide

The district

Where does Alameda Unified’s money go, and what does it plan?

Alameda Unified spent $18,559 per student in the 2024–25 school year.

That’s close to the typical California district, which spent $20,491. About 60 cents of every Alameda Unified dollar went to classroom instruction.

Spending by function

Day-to-day spending per student in average daily attendance, from the district’s annual financial report (SACS) to the California Department of Education. District-wide: it includes central administration and costs never assigned to one campus.

Share by function, 2024–25

  • Instruction60%
  • Instruction support11%
  • Student services10%
  • Administration7%
  • Buildings & maintenance10%
  • Other2%

Shares of the same spending total, by the report’s spending categories, rounded so they add up to 100. Names are simplified from the report’s own categories.

What the district plans

$10.5 million

planned in its 2026–27 plan for 22 funded actions in 4 goals. That’s 6% of its $185.7 million general fund budget. These are planned amounts; the district reports what it spent in a later plan.

The plan in short

Source: the district’s yearly spending plan (Local Control and Accountability Plan, or LCAP, 157 pages), as posted to the California School Dashboard.

Where the money goes

Three actions take 39% of the money. The plan itself puts 90% of it toward staff.

  • Targeted Intervention $1.7 million
  • Expanded Mental Health Services $1.2 million
  • Equity and Inclusion $1.1 million
  • 19 other actions
Reading, math and catch-up help

4 of the plan’s 22 funded actions name reading, math, catch-up help or English learners in their titles.

Actions whose titles name reading, math or catch-up help
  • Reading $0.3 million
  • Math $0.6 million
  • Catch-up help $1.7 million

An action naming two of these appears under both.

Largest of these

  • Targeted Intervention$1.7 million
  • Mathematics coaching and Professional Learning with a focus on 4th -8th grades$351,917
  • Improve outcomes in ELA and Mathematics for Students with Disabilities$215,918
For high-need students (English learners, low-income students and foster youth), what changed and what its goals measure
For high-need students

It plans $8.5 million in extra services for English learners, low-income students and foster youth. For 2025–26, it planned $8.3 million and estimates it spent $8.4 million, within 1% of the plan.

What changed

The total is $379,863 (4%) higher than in the 2025–26 plan. The biggest change in dollars is Expanded Mental Health Services, which went from $1.4 million to $1.2 million.

Largest cuts

  • Expanded Mental Health Services−⁠$253,333
  • Literacy Framework development and professional learning - address in prompt 4 (Pk-3 Literacy Focus)−⁠$79,698
  • Increase the learning rigor and engagement of students in ESN classes−⁠$37,276

Largest increases

  • Equity and Inclusion+⁠$206,911
  • Targeted Intervention+⁠$187,923
  • Mentoring and Advising+⁠$118,681
What its goals measure

Read these state results for the district’s own schools as context for the goals they measure; results alone can’t show what the plan caused.

What its goals measure: state results, 2024–25 and 2025–26
Measure2024–252025–26Change
English, every tested grade: Proficient or Advanced in 2025–26, met or exceeded in 2024–25Goal 168%71%up 3 pts
Math, every tested grade: Proficient or Advanced in 2025–26, met or exceeded in 2024–25Goal 160%62%up 2 pts
Chronically absentCounted across all the district’s students, not averaged by schoolGoals 2 and 312 in 10011 in 1001 fewer in 100
Suspended at least onceGoals 2 and 32.1%2.6%up 0.5 pts

Goal 4 isn’t shown because it tracks named schools.

Figures from CDE’s state test, chronic absence and suspension files. Test figures cover every grade the district tests (California tests grades 3–8 and 11), so they differ from a profile’s rated grades. We combined the district’s schools ourselves, weighted by students and leaving out charter schools. Chronically absent means a student missed 10% or more of school days.

The plan’s own titles and amounts
  • Targeted Intervention · $1,740,009
  • Expanded Mental Health Services · $1,166,994
  • Equity and Inclusion · $1,141,029
The full plan4 goals, 52 measures and where the money goes

We calculate each action’s share of the plan by dividing its planned amount by the total of the plan’s funded actions ($10.5 million).

Where does the money go?

52% to Goal 3. Each box is one action, sized by its planned dollars and coloured by its change since last year’s plan. Tap a box to open its goal.

G1
G3

Change since the 2025–26 plan, same title

  • fell 25% or more
  • fell 10–25%
  • fell 2–10%
  • within 2%
  • grew 2–10%
  • grew 10–25%
  • grew 25% or more
  • new or renamed title
  • not compared: unconfirmed, or repeated across goals

Every goal, in the plan’s order

Goal 1Create and Improve the foundational education program where student’s daily learning experiences are…$4.4 million42% of action budgets

“Create and Improve the foundational education program where student’s daily learning experiences are engaging, utilize multiple ways of learning, and feature lots of student talk. Student learning is driven by grade-level standards and tasks that support critical thinking, connections to real world concepts and developing healthy relationships” p. 20 ↗

13 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $4.5 million (−⁠$65,161)

Largest funded actions

  1. Retain High Quality Staff$1.0 millionaction 1.6 · p. 115 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  2. Professional Learning and Coaching$1.0 millionaction 1.4 · p. 115 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  3. Differentiated Professional Learning$0.4 millionaction 1.7 · p. 115 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  4. Mathematics coaching and Professional Learning with a focus on 4th -8th grades$0.4 millionaction 1.3 · p. 115 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $321,849 is state funding counted toward those services
  5. Site SPSA Goals and Actions targeted support$0.3 millionaction 1.8 · p. 115 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services

8 more funded actions in this goal

  • Data Driven Decision Making and Cycles of Continuous Improvement · action 1.12 · p. 116 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.3 million
  • Increase the learning rigor and engagement of students in ESN classes · action 1.11 · p. 116 ↗$0.3 million
  • Teacher Leader Development and collaboration · action 1.5 · p. 115 ↗$0.2 million
  • Improve outcomes in ELA and Mathematics for Students with Disabilities · action 1.10 · p. 115 ↗$0.2 million
  • Coordination and Support of English Language Learners · action 1.13 · p. 116 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.2 million
  • Inclusion for Students with Disabilities · action 1.14 · p. 116 ↗$0.1 million
  • Literacy Framework development and professional learning - address in prompt 4 (Pk-3 Literacy Focus) · action 1.2 · p. 115 ↗under $0.1 million
  • Equitable Grading · action 1.1 · p. 115 ↗under $0.1 million

Changes from last year’s plan, same title

  1. Professional Learning and Coaching+⁠$98,031$877,564 → $975,595 · p. 115 ↗
  2. Literacy Framework development and professional learning - address in prompt 4 (Pk-3 Literacy Focus)−⁠$79,698$120,948 → $41,250 · p. 115 ↗
  3. Increase the learning rigor and engagement of students in ESN classes−⁠$37,276$311,738 → $274,462 · p. 116 ↗

Every other line in this goal, against last year’s plan

  • Retain High Quality Staff · $1.0 million → $1.0 million · p. 115 ↗unchanged
  • Differentiated Professional Learning · $383,349 → $403,349 · p. 115 ↗+⁠$20,000
  • Mathematics coaching and Professional Learning with a focus on 4th -8th grades · $329,403 → $351,917 · p. 115 ↗+⁠$22,514
  • Site SPSA Goals and Actions targeted support · $319,700 → $339,204 · p. 115 ↗+⁠$19,504
  • Data Driven Decision Making and Cycles of Continuous Improvement · $264,448 → $280,475 · p. 116 ↗+⁠$16,027
  • Teacher Leader Development and collaboration · $230,000 → $230,000 · p. 115 ↗unchanged
  • Improve outcomes in ELA and Mathematics for Students with Disabilities · $201,998 → $215,918 · p. 115 ↗+⁠$13,920
  • Coordination and Support of English Language Learners · $174,716 → $195,432 · p. 116 ↗+⁠$20,716
  • Inclusion for Students with Disabilities · $64,873 → $71,130 · p. 116 ↗+⁠$6,257
  • Equitable Grading · $40,000 → $40,000 · p. 115 ↗unchanged

How the plan measures it · 27 measures

None of these has an all-students line we can quote; the plan’s table lists them from p. 20 ↗.

Goal 2We work to build relationships between families, students, and staff to ensure schools are supportive…$462,4794% of action budgets

“We work to build relationships between families, students, and staff to ensure schools are supportive, inclusive, and safe” p. 43 ↗

3 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $355,382 (+⁠$107,097)

Largest funded actions

  1. School Culture$239,326action 2.3 · p. 116 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  2. Culturally Responsive Family Engagement$138,925action 2.1 · p. 116 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  3. Best Practices Family and School Partnering$84,228action 2.2 · p. 116 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services

Changes from last year’s plan, same title

  1. School Culture+⁠$81,186$158,140 → $239,326 · p. 116 ↗
  2. Best Practices Family and School Partnering+⁠$22,491$61,737 → $84,228 · p. 116 ↗
  3. Culturally Responsive Family Engagement+⁠$3,420$135,505 → $138,925 · p. 116 ↗

How the plan measures it · 10 measures

None of these has an all-students line we can quote; the plan’s table lists them from p. 43 ↗.

Goal 3Every school provides the academic, social/​emotional, and culturally responsive support each student needs…$5.5 million52% of action budgets

“Every school provides the academic, social/​emotional, and culturally responsive support each student needs to reach their academic goals” p. 56 ↗

5 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $5.1 million (+⁠$326,270)

Largest funded actions

  1. Targeted Intervention$1.7 millionaction 3.1 · p. 116 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $1.6 million is state funding counted toward those services
  2. Expanded Mental Health Services$1.2 millionaction 3.3 · p. 116 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $640,000 is state funding counted toward those services
  3. Equity and Inclusion$1.1 millionaction 3.4 · p. 117 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $899,350 is state funding counted toward those services
  4. Mentoring and Advising$0.9 millionaction 3.5 · p. 117 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $886,837 is state funding counted toward those services
  5. Increased FTE to Support English Language Learners$0.5 millionaction 3.2 · p. 116 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services

Changes from last year’s plan, same title

  1. Expanded Mental Health Services−⁠$0.3 million$1.4 million → $1.2 million · p. 116 ↗
  2. Equity and Inclusion+⁠$0.2 million$0.9 million → $1.1 million · p. 117 ↗
  3. Targeted Intervention+⁠$0.2 million$1.6 million → $1.7 million · p. 116 ↗

Every other line in this goal, against last year’s plan

  • Mentoring and Advising · $818,156 → $936,837 · p. 117 ↗+⁠$118,681
  • Increased FTE to Support English Language Learners · $415,915 → $482,003 · p. 116 ↗+⁠$66,088

How the plan measures it · 12 measures

None of these has an all-students line we can quote; the plan’s table lists them from p. 56 ↗.

Goal 4 · Equity Multiplier Focus GoalIsland High School has prioritized addressing the needs of historically underserved student groups…$115,9001% of action budgets

“Island High School has prioritized addressing the needs of historically underserved student groups, specifically Socioeconomically Disadvantaged (SED) students and Students with Disabilities (SWD), due to their low performance on key California School Dashboard indicators such as Graduation Rate and College/​Career Readiness” p. 71 ↗

1 funded action · 2025–26 plan: $104,243 (+⁠$11,657)

Largest funded actions

  1. Promote alignment between student support systems, especially PBIS and COST, with an emphasis on improving attendance and graduation rates$115,900action 4.1 · p. 117 ↗

Changes from last year’s plan, same title

  1. Promote alignment between student support systems, especially PBIS and COST, with an emphasis on improving attendance and graduation rates+⁠$11,657$104,243 → $115,900 · p. 117 ↗

How the plan measures it · 3 measures

None of these has an all-students line we can quote; the plan’s table lists them from p. 71 ↗.

All amounts are planned. We read them from the PDF and added up each goal’s actions ourselves. Page links open the plan at that page.

Who goes to the district’s schools
Who attends

Student mix

2024–25 · October enrollment count, 10,771 students
1. White: 27%2. Asian: 25%3. Hispanic or Latino: 18%4. Two or more races: 16%5. Black or African American: 7%6. Filipino: 4%7. Not reported: 3%8. Pacific Islander: <1%9. American Indian or Alaska Native: <1%Student mix2024–25
  1. White27%
  2. Asian25%
  3. Hispanic or Latino18%
  4. Two or more races16%
  5. Black or African American7%
  6. Filipino4%
  7. Not reported3%
  8. Pacific Islander<1%
  9. American Indian or Alaska Native<1%
Shares use the district's own October enrollment counts from the CDE, including its charter schools.

Free or reduced-price meals

36%

Across California, 63% of students qualify.

2024–25 · 3,897 of 10,739 students qualify, summed from the CDE’s meal counts for every school it lists under the district, charters included. It comes from a different CDE file than the student mix, so the two totals differ.

The district’s state records

Is the state giving the district extra help?

The state is giving Alameda Unified extra help in 2026, the second year after it qualified on the 2025 Dashboard.

How English learners moved up on the state’s English test

From spring 2025 to spring 2026, 53% of the district’s English learners moved up at least one level on the state’s English test (ELPAC), or stayed at the top (283 of 538 students). California: 47%. It counts students moving up the test’s levels, so a student can count here before becoming fluent.

1 school getting state support, 2025–26

Island High (Continuation) (Extra targeted support)

This list covers the district’s own schools; each charter school’s page shows its record. Federal designation under the Every Student Succeeds Act, 2025–26.

Sources: District help (CDE) ↗ · English learner progress (CDE) ↗ · School support (CDE) ↗. State results from the 2026 California School Dashboard.

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Common questions

Which public schools in Alameda Unified rank highest?

Elementary: 2 schools at the 95th percentile (Strong): Frank Otis Elementary and Bay Farm. Middle: Lincoln Middle, 95th percentile (Strong). High: Alameda Science and Technology Institute, 95th percentile (Strong). Each percentile is among the California schools at the same level we score. A rank doesn’t decide fit or whether a child can enroll.

Does living in the Alameda Unified district decide which school my child attends?

Not by itself. Attendance boundaries, programs, transfers and space all matter. Confirm the school for your address, grade and program with the district.
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Are the public schools in Alameda Unified good?

Alameda Unified’s 11 public elementary schools run from the 38th to the 95th percentile among the 5,726 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests). By band: 6 Strong, 4 Solid and 1 Developing. Alameda Unified’s 6 public middle schools run from the 46th to the 95th percentile among the 2,529 California middle schools we score (spring 2026 tests). By band: 1 Strong, 4 Solid and 1 Developing. Alameda Unified’s 4 public high schools run from the 47th to the 95th percentile among the 1,498 California high schools we score (spring 2025 tests). By band: 3 Strong and 1 Developing. A percentile compares a school with California public schools at the same level that we score. How we score schools.

How does chronic absence in Alameda Unified compare with California?

The average elementary school in Alameda Unified had 12 in 100 students chronically absent (missed 10% or more of school days) in 2025–26; the average California elementary school we score had 17 in 100. Both are averages of school rates, each school counted once. The average middle school in Alameda Unified had 16 in 100 students chronically absent in 2025–26; the average California middle school we score had 18 in 100. The average high school in Alameda Unified had 13 in 100 students chronically absent in 2025–26; the average California high school we score had 22 in 100. These are averages of school rates: each school counts once, whatever its size.

How much does Alameda Unified spend per student?

Alameda Unified spent $18,559 per student in the 2024–25 school year. That’s close to the typical California district, which spent $20,491. About 60 cents of every Alameda Unified dollar went to classroom instruction. Day-to-day spending per student in average daily attendance, from its annual financial report to the California Department of Education. The district’s spending, by function.

What is in Alameda Unified’s 2026–27 spending plan?

The district’s 2026–27 spending plan puts $10.5 million into 22 funded actions in 4 goals, 6% of its $185.7 million general fund budget. Its largest goal holds $5.5 million, 52% of the action budgets. The 2026–27 plan, goal by goal.

Where do these results come from?

California’s state tests (CAASPP): spring 2026 for elementary and middle schools, spring 2025 for high schools, and chronic-absence rates for 2025–26, published by the California Department of Education. Percentiles, bands and Scope Scores are SchoolScope’s calculations. How we score schools.

Sources and methodology

This page lists the public schools governed and funded by Alameda Unified, with the district’s spending and state accountability records.

Data source: California Department of Education · CAASPP 2025–26 elementary and middle school; 2024–25 high school

Percentiles, bands and Scope Scores are SchoolScope’s own calculations from these state files.

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