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Cajon Valley Union schools

Cajon Valley Union’s 22 public elementary schools run from the 1st to the 77th percentile among the 5,726 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests). They sit in all four bands, from Strong to Needs Support.

Elementary · 22 schools

from 1st to 77th · among 5,726 California elementary schools we score · spring 2026 tests

  • Fuerte Elementary: 77th percentile, Strong
  • Kidinnu Academy: 66th percentile, Solid
  • Blossom Valley Elementary: 59th percentile, Solid
  • Rancho San Diego Elementary: 58th percentile, Solid
  • Rios Elementary: 54th percentile, Solid
  • Cajon Valley Home: 54th percentile, Solid
  • Vista Grande Elementary: 45th percentile, Developing
  • Flying Hills School of Arts: 44th percentile, Developing
  • Crest Elementary: 37th percentile, Developing
  • Jamacha Elementary: 28th percentile, Developing
  • Avocado Elementary: 28th percentile, Developing
  • EJE Elementary Academy Charter: 26th percentile, Developing
  • Bostonia Global: 24th percentile, Needs Support
  • Johnson Elementary: 21st percentile, Needs Support
  • Madison Avenue Elementary: 19th percentile, Needs Support
  • Meridian Elementary: 12th percentile, Needs Support
  • Magnolia Elementary: 7th percentile, Needs Support
  • Chase Avenue Elementary: 5th percentile, Needs Support
  • Anza Elementary: 5th percentile, Needs Support
  • W. D. Hall Elementary: 3rd percentile, Needs Support
  • Naranca Elementary: 2nd percentile, Needs Support
  • Lexington Elementary: 1st percentile, Needs Support
10Needs Support
6Developing
5Solid
1Strong

One dot per school.

Middle and high school pictures

Middle · 10 schools

from bottom 1% to 68th · among 2,529 California middle schools we score · spring 2026 tests

  • Hillsdale Middle: 68th percentile, Solid
  • Kidinnu Academy: 59th percentile, Solid
  • Crest Elementary: 43rd percentile, Developing
  • Flying Hills School of Arts: 41st percentile, Developing
  • Cajon Valley Home: 35th percentile, Developing
  • Los Coches Creek Middle: 34th percentile, Developing
  • Bostonia Global: 25th percentile, Developing
  • Greenfield Middle: 4th percentile, Needs Support
  • Cajon Valley Middle: 1st percentile, Needs Support
  • Montgomery Middle: bottom 1%, Needs Support
3Needs Support
5Developing
2Solid
0Strong

High · 1 school

at 4th · among 1,498 California high schools we score · spring 2025 tests

  • Bostonia Global: 4th percentile, Needs Support
1Needs Support
0Developing
0Solid
0Strong

One dot per school. Each stage is placed only among California schools at its own level. 5 of the 27 ranked schools teach more than one level, 1 of them all three, so they appear in more than one picture.

  • 27 ranked schools
  • 1 school not ranked statewide

Schools around Cajon Valley Union

28 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 Cajon Valley Union score highest?

Fuerte Elementary is highest, at the 77th percentile.

That’s higher than 77 in 100 of the 5,726 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests).

Highest in Cajon Valley Union

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

Show the other 19 elementary schools
Context

The average elementary school in Cajon Valley Union had 16 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.

1 elementary school not ranked statewide
  • EmpowerSpecial education center: students are placed here by an IEP team, not by address and not by lottery, so we don’t rank it

Middle schools

Which middle schools in Cajon Valley Union score highest?

Hillsdale Middle is highest, at the 68th percentile.

That’s higher than 68 in 100 of the 2,529 California middle schools we score (spring 2026 tests).

Highest in Cajon Valley Union

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

Show the other 7 middle schools
Context

The average middle school in Cajon Valley Union had 15 in 100 students chronically absent in 2025–26; the average California middle school we score had 18 in 100.

High schools

Where does the high school we score in Cajon Valley Union stand?

Bostonia Global is at the 4th percentile.

That’s higher than 4 in 100 of the 1,498 California high schools we score (spring 2025 tests). It’s the only public high school we score in Cajon Valley Union.

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

  • Bostonia GlobalEl Cajon · Charter school. Check how it admits students.
    4thNeeds SupportScope Score 34

The district

Where does Cajon Valley Union’s money go, and what does it plan?

Cajon Valley Union spent $20,752 per student in the 2024–25 school year.

That’s close to the typical California district, which spent $20,491. About 63 cents of every Cajon Valley Union 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

  • Instruction63%
  • Instruction support13%
  • Student services11%
  • Administration7%
  • Buildings & maintenance6%

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

$87.9 million

planned in its 2026–27 plan for 42 funded actions in 2 goals. That’s 25% of its $346.0 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, 119 pages), as posted to the California School Dashboard.

Where the money goes

Three actions take 51% of the money. The plan itself puts 72% of it toward staff.

  • Instruction and tutoring outside the school day and calendar. (ELO) $24.8 million
  • Class Size Reduction $12.5 million
  • Additional Concentration Grant $7.4 million
  • 39 other actions
Reading, math and catch-up help

4 of the plan’s 42 funded actions name reading, math, catch-up help or English learners in their titles.

Actions whose titles name reading, catch-up help or English learners
  • Reading $3.7 million
  • Catch-up help $25.0 million
  • English learners $0.7 million

An action naming two of these appears under both.

Largest of these

  • Instruction and tutoring outside the school day and calendar. (ELO)$24.8 million
  • Literacy Program, LREBG Action$3.5 million
  • EL Program Support$698,214
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 $61.2 million in extra services for English learners, low-income students and foster youth. For 2025–26, it planned $52.9 million and estimates it spent $61.8 million, $8.9 million (17%) more than planned (our arithmetic).

What changed

The total is $10.4 million (13%) higher than in the 2025–26 plan. The biggest change in dollars is Supplemental Curriculum, which went from $1.0 million to $4.0 million.

Largest increases

  • Supplemental Curriculum+⁠$3.0 million
  • Instruction and tutoring outside the school day and calendar. (ELO)+⁠$1.7 million
  • Class Size Reduction+⁠$1.6 million

New in the 2026–27 plan

  • Literacy Program, LREBG Action$3.5 million
  • Site Service Structures$765,000
  • Content Area Professional Learning Cohorts, LREBB Action$761,950
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 2024–25Students with disabilities · Goal 411%12%up 1 pt

Goal 1 isn’t shown because it tracks other measures.

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
  • Instruction and tutoring outside the school day and calendar. (ELO) · $24,845,478
  • Class Size Reduction · $12,548,990
  • Additional Concentration Grant · $7,436,496
The full plan2 goals, 21 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 ($87.9 million).

Where does the money go?

8% to Goal 1. 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
G2
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 1All students will be prepared with the skills needed to be gainfully employed, based on their strengths…$7.1 million8% of action budgets

“All students will be prepared with the skills needed to be gainfully employed, based on their strengths, interests, and values” p. 18 ↗

7 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $6.4 million (+⁠$649,699)

Largest funded actions

  1. Professional Development$5.3 millionaction 1.5 · p. 67 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  2. Content Area Professional Learning Cohorts, LREBB Action$0.8 millionaction 1.7 · p. 67 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $381,950 is state funding counted toward those services
  3. Career Development Experiences$0.3 millionaction 1.3 · p. 67 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  4. Professional Learning Coordinator$0.2 millionaction 1.6 · p. 67 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  5. TEDx$0.2 millionaction 1.1 · p. 67 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services

2 more funded actions in this goal

  • Recreational Equipment Replacement · action 1.2 · p. 67 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.2 million
  • Transportation Operations Assistant · action 1.4 · p. 67 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.1 million

Changes from last year’s plan, same title

  1. Professional Development+⁠$0.1 million$5.3 million → $5.3 million · p. 67 ↗
  2. Professional Learning Coordinator−⁠$49,341$285,658 → $236,317 · p. 67 ↗
  3. Transportation Operations Assistant+⁠$4,392$96,785 → $101,177 · p. 67 ↗

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

  • Content Area Professional Learning Cohorts, LREBB Action · $761,950 · p. 67 ↗new or renamed
  • Career Development Experiences · $289,610 → $291,200 · p. 67 ↗+⁠$1,590
  • TEDx · $200,000 → $200,000 · p. 67 ↗unchanged
  • Recreational Equipment Replacement · $158,570 → $160,800 · p. 67 ↗+⁠$2,230

A reworded title counts as new.

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. 18 ↗.

Goal 4Students with disabilities will demonstrate expected yearly growth in literacy skills$765,0001% of action budgets

1 funded action · 2025–26 plan: $0 (+⁠$765,000) · p. 35 ↗

Largest funded actions

  1. Site Service Structures$765,000action 4.3 · p. 70 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services

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

  • Site Service Structures · $765,000 · p. 70 ↗new or renamed

A reworded title counts as new.

How the plan measures it · 11 measures · 1 quoted

  • Parent Involvement Field on IEPs (% of IEPs with Parent Involvement Field Complete as Yes) p. 38 ↗
    Baseline
    97.3% of IEPs have the parent involvement field completed as yes.
    Target for year 3
    99% of IEPs have the parent involvement field completed as yes.

10 more measures in the plan’s table.

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, 18,527 students
1. White: 41%2. Hispanic or Latino: 37%3. Asian: 8%4. Black or African American: 6%5. Not reported: 4%6. Two or more races: 2%7. Pacific Islander: <1%8. American Indian or Alaska Native: <1%9. Filipino: <1%Student mix2024–25
  1. White41%
  2. Hispanic or Latino37%
  3. Asian8%
  4. Black or African American6%
  5. Not reported4%
  6. Two or more races2%
  7. Pacific Islander<1%
  8. American Indian or Alaska Native<1%
  9. Filipino<1%
Shares use the district's own October enrollment counts from the CDE, including its charter schools. Rounded labels may not total 100%; segments use the original shares.

Free or reduced-price meals

83%

Across California, 63% of students qualify.

2024–25 · 15,338 of 18,509 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 Cajon Valley Union extra help in 2026. A student group had the Dashboard’s lowest results (red) on two or more measures three years in a row.

It also qualified the year before.

Which students, on which measures

Black or African American students
English and suspensions
English learners
English and math

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

From spring 2025 to spring 2026, 48% of the district’s English learners moved up at least one level on the state’s English test (ELPAC), or stayed at the top (2,098 of 4,411 students). California: 47%. It counts students moving up the test’s levels, so a student can count here before becoming fluent.

10 schools getting state support, 2025–26

4 in extra targeted support · 6 in 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 Cajon Valley Union rank highest?

Elementary: Fuerte Elementary, 77th percentile (Strong). Middle: Hillsdale Middle, 68th percentile (Solid). High: Bostonia Global, 4th percentile (Needs Support). 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 Cajon Valley Union 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 Cajon Valley Union good?

Cajon Valley Union’s 22 public elementary schools run from the 1st to the 77th percentile among the 5,726 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests). By band: 1 Strong, 5 Solid, 6 Developing and 10 Needs Support. Cajon Valley Union’s 10 public middle schools run from the bottom 1% to the 68th percentile among the 2,529 California middle schools we score (spring 2026 tests). By band: 2 Solid, 5 Developing and 3 Needs Support. Cajon Valley Union has one public high school we score, Bostonia Global, at the 4th percentile among the 1,498 California high schools we score (spring 2025 tests). By band: 1 Needs Support. 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 Cajon Valley Union compare with California?

The average elementary school in Cajon Valley Union had 16 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 Cajon Valley Union had 15 in 100 students chronically absent in 2025–26; the average California middle school we score had 18 in 100. These are averages of school rates: each school counts once, whatever its size.

How much does Cajon Valley Union spend per student?

Cajon Valley Union spent $20,752 per student in the 2024–25 school year. That’s close to the typical California district, which spent $20,491. About 63 cents of every Cajon Valley Union 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 Cajon Valley Union’s 2026–27 spending plan?

The district’s 2026–27 spending plan puts $87.9 million into 42 funded actions in 2 goals, 25% of its $346.0 million general fund budget. Its largest goal holds $7.1 million, 8% 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 Cajon Valley Union, 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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