El Segundo Unified has two ranked public elementary schools, one middle school and one high school. Center Street Elementary is at the 98th percentile, Richmond Street Elementary the 96th, El Segundo Middle the 95th and El Segundo High the 91st, each among the California schools we score at its level (spring 2026 tests; high schools, spring 2025).
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 El Segundo Unified score highest?
Center Street Elementary’s 98th percentile means it scored higher than 98 in 100 of the 5,726 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests).
Highest in El Segundo Unified
Each percentile compares a school with California schools at its own level. What patterns mean
Where does El Segundo Unified’s money go, and what does it plan?
El Segundo Unified spent $16,640 per student in the 2024–25 school year.
The typical California district spent $20,491. About 63 cents of every El Segundo 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
Instruction63%
Instruction support8%
Student services8%
Administration9%
Buildings & maintenance11%
Other1%
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
$44.3 million
planned in its 2026–27 plan for 52 funded actions in 3 goals. That’s 70% of its $63.4 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, 92 pages), as posted to the California School Dashboard.
Where the money goes
Three actions take 71% of the money. The plan itself puts 88% of it toward staff.
Teaching Assignments $25.7 million
Administrative Assignments $3.7 million
Para-Professional Assignments $2.3 million
49 other actions
Reading, math and catch-up help
7 of the plan’s 52 funded actions name reading, math, catch-up help or English learners in their titles.
Actions whose titles name reading, math, catch-up help or English learners
Reading $392,346
Math $31,712
Catch-up help $327,948
English learners $285,632
An action naming two of these appears under both.
Largest of these
Literacy Support K-5$392,346
ELD/LTEL Intervention and Support$225,141
Credit Recovery Summer Program$67,807
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 $1.7 million in extra services for English learners, low-income students and foster youth. For 2025–26, it planned $1.4 million and estimates it spent $1.5 million, $0.1 million (5%) more than planned (our arithmetic).
$1.5 million spent (estimated)$1.4 million planned
What changed
The total is $401,317 (1%) higher than in the 2025–26 plan. The biggest change in dollars is Access to Meals, which went from $1.2 million to $2.1 million.
Largest cuts
Technology/Device Purchases−$884,038
Teaching Assignments−$526,478
Long Range Facility Master Plan−$200,000
Largest increases
Access to Meals+$946,631
Professional Development+$181,416
New in the 2026–27 plan
Inclusion$470,669
Multi-tiered System of Support$400,435
AVID 7-12$367,136
Ask: What did Technology/Device Purchases pay for, and what changes now that the 2026–27 plan gives it $884,038 less?
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
Measure
2024–25
2025–26
Change
English, every tested grade: Proficient or Advanced in 2025–26, met or exceeded in 2024–25Goal 1
77%
76%
down 1 pt
Math, every tested grade: Proficient or Advanced in 2025–26, met or exceeded in 2024–25Goals 1 and 3
70%
74%
up 4 pts
Chronically absentCounted across all the district’s students, not averaged by schoolGoal 1
9 in 100
7 in 100
2 fewer in 100
Suspended at least onceGoal 1
1.0%
0.8%
down 0.2 pts
Goal 2 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
Teaching Assignments · $25,654,159
Administrative Assignments · $3,687,520
Para-Professional Assignments · $2,287,769
The full plan3 goals, 44 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 ($44.3 million).
Where does the money go?
83% 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.
not compared: unconfirmed, or repeated across goals
Every goal, in the plan’s order
Goal 1Promote a positive learning environment while ensuring high-quality education to enhance student achievement…$7.5 million17% of action budgets
“Promote a positive learning environment while ensuring high-quality education to enhance student achievement and prepare well-rounded individuals for college and career success, prioritizing social and emotional well-being as measured by CAASPP and other College and Career metrics” p. 14 ↗
24 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $5.6 million (+$2.0 million)
Reduce Class Size$0.4 millionaction 1.7 · p. 50 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $246,494 is state funding counted toward those services
District Nurse and Health Assistant$0.4 millionaction 1.20 · p. 51 ↗
19 more funded actions in this goal
Multi-tiered System of Support · action 1.4 · p. 49 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.4 million
Literacy Support K-5 · action 1.2 · p. 49 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.4 million
Healthy Lifestyle · action 1.17 · p. 50 ↗$0.4 million
AVID 7-12 · action 1.1 · p. 49 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $344,536 is state funding counted toward those services$0.4 million
Academic Counseling · action 1.12 · p. 50 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $79,178 is state funding counted toward those services$0.3 million
Restorative Practices · action 1.14 · p. 50 ↗$0.3 million
College and Career Readiness · action 1.3 · p. 49 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.2 million
Intensive Behavioral Instructional Assistant · action 1.22 · p. 51 ↗$0.2 million
ELD/LTEL Intervention and Support · action 1.5 · p. 49 ↗$0.2 million
SARB and District Level Attendance Monitoring · action 1.16 · p. 50 ↗$0.2 million
Home-School Communication$63,400action 2.6 · p. 51 ↗
Site-level Family Nights$56,298action 2.4 · p. 51 ↗
Highlight District Accomplishments through Social Media$40,000action 2.7 · p. 51 ↗
Community and Business Internships$26,235action 2.5 · p. 51 ↗
Parent Education Programs$23,892action 2.3 · p. 51 ↗
2 more funded actions in this goal
Family Resources to Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Families · action 2.2 · p. 51 ↗$9,452
District English Learner Advisory Committee (DELAC) Meetings to Support Parents of EL Students · action 2.1 · p. 51 ↗$1,086
Changes from last year’s plan, same title
Community and Business Internships+$6,235$20,000 → $26,235 · p. 51 ↗
Parent Education Programs−$840$24,732 → $23,892 · p. 51 ↗
Family Resources to Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Families−$781$10,233 → $9,452 · p. 51 ↗
Every other line in this goal, against last year’s plan
Home-School Communication · $63,400 → $63,400 · p. 51 ↗unchanged
Site-level Family Nights · $56,298 · p. 51 ↗new or renamed
Highlight District Accomplishments through Social Media · $40,000 → $40,000 · p. 51 ↗unchanged
District English Learner Advisory Committee (DELAC) Meetings to Support Parents of EL Students · $1,086 · p. 51 ↗new or renamed
A reworded title counts as new.
How the plan measures it · 5 measures
None of these has an all-students line we can quote; the plan’s table lists them from p. 31 ↗.
Goal 3Strengthen the workforce by recruiting and retaining high-quality employees while enhancing personnel…$36.6 million83% of action budgets
“Strengthen the workforce by recruiting and retaining high-quality employees while enhancing personnel capacity, all while maintaining fiscal health and addressing school safety, long-term infrastructure, and facility needs” p. 35 ↗
21 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $38.2 million (−$1.6 million)
Largest funded actions
Teaching Assignments$25.7 millionaction 3.2 · p. 51 ↗
Administrative Assignments$3.7 millionaction 3.4 · p. 51 ↗
Para-Professional Assignments$2.3 millionaction 3.5 · p. 52 ↗
Long Range Facility Master Plan$1.0 millionaction 3.14 · p. 52 ↗
Enhance Cybersecurity Needs$0.8 millionaction 3.13 · p. 52 ↗
16 more funded actions in this goal
Technology Support Staff · action 3.19 · p. 52 ↗$0.7 million
Campus Security · action 3.22 · p. 52 ↗$0.6 million
Air quality upgrades · action 3.17 · p. 52 ↗$0.5 million
Professional Development · action 3.1 · p. 51 ↗$0.4 million
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, 3,472 students
1White44%
2Hispanic or Latino25%
3Two or more races17%
4Asian8%
5Black or African American3%
6Filipino2%
7Pacific Islander<1%
8Not reported<1%
9American Indian or Alaska Native<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
12%
Across California, 63% of students qualify.
2024–25 · 410 of 3,462 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?
El Segundo Unified isn’t getting extra state help in 2026, only the standard support every district gets.
How English learners moved up on the state’s English test
From spring 2025 to spring 2026, 56% of the district’s English learners moved up at least one level on the state’s English test (ELPAC), or stayed at the top (22 of 39 students). California: 47%. It counts students moving up the test’s levels, so a student can count here before becoming fluent.
Which public schools in El Segundo Unified rank highest?
Elementary: Center Street Elementary, 98th percentile (Strong). Middle: El Segundo Middle, 95th percentile (Strong). High: El Segundo High, 91st 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 El Segundo 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 El Segundo Unified good?
El Segundo Unified’s 2 public elementary schools run from the 96th to the 98th percentile among the 5,726 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests). By band: 2 Strong. El Segundo Unified has one public middle school we score, El Segundo Middle, at the 95th percentile among the 2,529 California middle schools we score (spring 2026 tests). By band: 1 Strong. El Segundo Unified has one public high school we score, El Segundo High, at the 91st percentile among the 1,498 California high schools we score (spring 2025 tests). By band: 1 Strong. A percentile compares a school with California public schools at the same level that we score. How we score schools.
How much does El Segundo Unified spend per student?
El Segundo Unified spent $16,640 per student in the 2024–25 school year. The typical California district spent $20,491. About 63 cents of every El Segundo 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 El Segundo Unified’s 2026–27 spending plan?
The district’s 2026–27 spending plan puts $44.3 million into 52 funded actions in 3 goals, 70% of its $63.4 million general fund budget. Its largest goal holds $36.6 million, 83% 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 El Segundo 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.