Fullerton Elementary runs schools through 8th grade. Its 17 public elementary schools run from the 15th to the 99th percentile among the 5,726 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests). High school is a separate district, Fullerton Joint Union High.
K5Elementary
68Middle
912High
Fullerton Elementary · grades K–8
Fullerton Joint Union High · grades 9–12
Elementary · 17 schools
from 15th to 99th · among 5,726 California elementary schools we score · spring 2026 tests
Beechwood Elementary: 99th percentile, Strong
Robert C. Fisler Elementary: 95th percentile, Strong
Laguna Road Elementary: 92nd percentile, Strong
Sunset Lane Elementary: 85th percentile, Strong
Acacia Elementary: 83rd percentile, Strong
Golden Hill School for Creative & Performing Arts: 81st percentile, Strong
Woodcrest Elementary: 15th percentile, Needs Support
2Needs Support
4Developing
4Solid
7Strong
Middle · 5 schools
from 30th to 98th · among 2,529 California middle schools we score · spring 2026 tests
Robert C. Fisler Elementary: 98th percentile, Strong
Beechwood Elementary: 93rd percentile, Strong
D. Russell Parks Junior High: 88th percentile, Strong
Ladera Vista Junior High School of the Arts: 66th percentile, Solid
Nicolas Junior High: 30th percentile, Developing
0Needs Support
1Developing
1Solid
3Strong
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One dot per school. Each stage is placed only among California schools at its own level. 2 of the 20 ranked schools teach two levels, so they appear in more than one picture.
The record sends Fullerton Elementary addresses to these five high schools. Some addresses fall in more than one zone. Boundaries come from the district’s published 2026 attendance boundaries; districts redraw them, and they are approximate at the edges.
The average elementary school in the Fullerton Elementary district had 10 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 the Fullerton Elementary district score highest?
Robert C. Fisler Elementary is highest, at the 98th percentile.
That’s higher than 98 in 100 California middle schools we score (spring 2026 tests).
Highest in the Fullerton Elementary district
Each percentile compares a school with California schools at its own level.
The average middle school in the Fullerton Elementary district had 9 in 100 students chronically absent in 2025–26; the average California middle school we score had 18 in 100.
The district
Where does Fullerton Elementary’s money go, and what does it plan?
The Fullerton Elementary district spent $17,654 per student in the 2024–25 school year.
The typical California district spent $20,491. About 63 cents of every Fullerton Elementary 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 support16%
Student services7%
Administration5%
Buildings & maintenance9%
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
$192.7 million
planned in its 2026–27 plan for 32 funded actions in 4 goals. That’s 92% of its $210.1 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, 152 pages), as posted to the California School Dashboard.
Where the money goes
Three actions take 59% of the money; their titles are below. The plan itself puts 82% of it toward staff.
Recruit and Maintain High-Quality Staff $60.2 million
Action 2 $28.2 million
Special Education Student Support $25.7 million
29 other actions
Reading, math and catch-up help
4 of the plan’s 32 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 $0.3 million
Catch-up help $28.2 million
English learners $5.4 million
Largest of these
Academic Support and Progress Monitoring for Foster Youth, Low Income Students, and Students Experiencing Homelessness$28.2 million
Improve Educational Outcomes for English Learners through Specialized Support and Professional Development for Appropriate Staff$4.8 million
Improve Educational Outcomes for Long Term English Learners through Specialized Support and Professional Development for Appropriate Staff$640,566
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 $23.0 million in extra services for English learners, low-income students and foster youth. For 2025–26, it planned $23.3 million and estimates it spent $25.2 million, $1.9 million (8%) more than planned (our arithmetic).
$25.2 million spent (estimated)$23.3 million planned
What changed
The total is $7.5 million (4%) higher than in the 2025–26 plan. The biggest change in dollars is Special Education Student Support, which went from $21.2 million to $25.7 million.
Largest cuts
Practices of Connection and Strategic Engagement of Families of of English Learners (including LTELs), Foster Youth, Students Experiencing Economic Hardship−$644,905
Family Engagement in Student Success−$595,800
Recruit and Maintain High-Quality Staff−$568,077
Largest increases
Special Education Student Support+$4.5 million
Physical, Social, and Emotional Health and Well-being of Students+$887,646
Participation in Exploratory Enrichment+$777,591
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
60%
59%
down 1 pt
Math, every tested grade: Proficient or Advanced in 2025–26, met or exceeded in 2024–25Goal 1
52%
52%
no change
Chronically absentCounted across all the district’s students, not averaged by schoolGoal 3
9 in 100
9 in 100
no change
Suspended at least onceGoal 3
1.3%
1.1%
down 0.2 pts
Goals 2 and 4 aren’t shown because they track 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
Recruit and Maintain High-Quality Staff · $60,216,939
Academic Support and Progress Monitoring for Foster Youth, Low Income Students, and Students Experiencing Homelessness · $28,197,466
Special Education Student Support · $25,712,073
The full plan4 goals, 43 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 ($192.7 million).
Where does the money go?
72% 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.
not compared: unconfirmed, or repeated across goals
Every goal, in the plan’s order
Goal 1All students will demonstrate proficiency or growth toward proficiency in English Language Arts (ELA) and Math$138.4 million72% of action budgets
12 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $132.1 million (+$6.3 million) · p. 15 ↗
Largest funded actions
Recruit and Maintain High-Quality Staff$60.2 millionaction 1.3 · p. 109 ↗
Academic Support and Progress Monitoring for Foster Youth, Low Income Students, and Students Experiencing Homelessness$28.2 millionaction 1.8 · p. 109 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $8.8 million is state funding counted toward those services
Special Education Student Support$25.7 millionaction 1.5 · p. 109 ↗
Participation in Exploratory Enrichment$6.7 millionaction 1.7 · p. 109 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $1.2 million is state funding counted toward those services
Fiscal Alignment$5.7 millionaction 1.11 · p. 110 ↗
7 more funded actions in this goal
Improve Educational Outcomes for English Learners through Specialized Support and Professional Development for Appropriate Staff · action 1.4 · p. 109 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $4.1 million is state funding counted toward those services$4.8 million
Professional Development For All Appropriate Staff For Positive Student Learning Outcomes · action 1.1 · p. 109 ↗$2.1 million
Professional Learning Communities · action 1.10 · p. 110 ↗$1.7 million
Standards-Aligned Curriculum and Materials · action 1.6 · p. 109 ↗$1.2 million
Pre-Kindergarten, TK, and Kindergarten · action 1.9 · p. 109 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $611,737 is state funding counted toward those services$0.8 million
Advanced Coursework and College and Career Readiness · action 1.2 · p. 109 ↗$0.7 million
Improve Educational Outcomes for Long Term English Learners through Specialized Support and Professional Development for Appropriate Staff · action 1.12 · p. 110 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $549,322 is state funding counted toward those services$0.6 million
Changes from last year’s plan, same title
Special Education Student Support+$4.5 million$21.2 million → $25.7 million · p. 109 ↗
Participation in Exploratory Enrichment+$0.8 million$5.9 million → $6.7 million · p. 109 ↗
Recruit and Maintain High-Quality Staff−$0.6 million$60.8 million → $60.2 million · p. 109 ↗
Every other line in this goal, against last year’s plan
Academic Support and Progress Monitoring for Foster Youth, Low Income Students, and Students Experiencing Homelessness · $27.7 million → $28.2 million · p. 109 ↗+$0.5 million
Fiscal Alignment · $5.2 million → $5.7 million · p. 110 ↗+$0.4 million
Improve Educational Outcomes for English Learners through Specialized Support and Professional Development for Appropriate Staff · $4.6 million → $4.8 million · p. 109 ↗+$0.2 million
Professional Development For All Appropriate Staff For Positive Student Learning Outcomes · $1.8 million → $2.1 million · p. 109 ↗+$0.3 million
Professional Learning Communities · $1.4 million → $1.7 million · p. 110 ↗+$0.4 million
Standards-Aligned Curriculum and Materials · $1.3 million → $1.2 million · p. 109 ↗−$0.1 million
Pre-Kindergarten, TK, and Kindergarten · $879,461 → $782,376 · p. 109 ↗−$97,085
Advanced Coursework and College and Career Readiness · $637,622 → $655,123 · p. 109 ↗+$17,501
Improve Educational Outcomes for Long Term English Learners through Specialized Support and Professional Development for Appropriate Staff · $639,603 → $640,566 · p. 110 ↗+$963
How the plan measures it · 16 measures
None of these has an all-students line we can quote; the plan’s table lists them from p. 15 ↗.
Goal 2FSD will provide access to high quality digital tools, infrastructure, resources, personalized learning…$7.3 million4% of action budgets
“FSD will provide access to high quality digital tools, infrastructure, resources, personalized learning technology and professional learning so that all students have opportunities to access engaging online instructional resources and can demonstrate digital and informational literacy skills required for college and career success” p. 53 ↗
8 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $6.7 million (+$512,467)
Largest funded actions
Strategic Technology Support to Low-Income, Homeless, and Foster Youth$2.5 millionaction 2.5 · p. 111 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $2.0 million is state funding counted toward those services
Build and Maintain Infrastructure for Instructional Technology$2.1 millionaction 2.1 · p. 110 ↗
Maintain Efficient Infrastructure and Device Ecosystem for District Operations$0.8 millionaction 2.8 · p. 111 ↗
Parent and Student Training$0.8 millionaction 2.3 · p. 111 ↗
Professional Development: Innovation and Digital Literacy$0.3 millionaction 2.2 · p. 110 ↗
3 more funded actions in this goal
Tech Mini-Externship Workshops through the Innovation and Instructional Support Department Personnel · action 2.7 · p. 111 ↗$0.3 million
Student Agency Opportunities · action 2.4 · p. 111 ↗$0.2 million
Digital Wellness Curriculum and Implementation · action 2.6 · p. 111 ↗$0.2 million
Changes from last year’s plan, same title
Maintain Efficient Infrastructure and Device Ecosystem for District Operations+$223,682$564,716 → $788,398 · p. 111 ↗
Tech Mini-Externship Workshops through the Innovation and Instructional Support Department Personnel+$195,467$137,690 → $333,157 · p. 111 ↗
Parent and Student Training+$169,597$589,192 → $758,789 · p. 111 ↗
Every other line in this goal, against last year’s plan
Strategic Technology Support to Low-Income, Homeless, and Foster Youth · $2.5 million → $2.5 million · p. 111 ↗+$32,933
Build and Maintain Infrastructure for Instructional Technology · $2.1 million → $2.1 million · p. 110 ↗+$31,097
Professional Development: Innovation and Digital Literacy · $398,635 → $336,777 · p. 110 ↗−$61,858
Digital Wellness Curriculum and Implementation · $181,071 → $169,248 · p. 111 ↗−$11,823
How the plan measures it · 9 measures · 3 quoted
% of students who have daily access to high quality digital instructional resourcesp. 54 ↗
Baseline
2023-2024 100%
Target for year 3
Maintain 100%
% of teachers who teach requisite digital citizenship, information literacy, and Internet safety lessons across the school yearp. 54 ↗
Baseline
2023-2024 100%
Target for year 3
Maintain 100%
Number of schools in which personnel have been trained in AI technology integrationp. 55 ↗
Baseline
2023-2024 6 Schools
Target for year 3
All 20 schools trained
6 more measures in the plan’s table.
Goal 3All FSD departments and school sites will work to provide a safe and secure environment that promotes the…$40.4 million21% of action budgets
“All FSD departments and school sites will work to provide a safe and secure environment that promotes the physical, social and emotional health and well-being of all staff and students” p. 65 ↗
8 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $38.0 million (+$2.4 million)
Physical, Social, and Emotional Health and Well-being of Students$7.4 millionaction 3.2 · p. 111 ↗
Wrap-around Services for Physical Well-being of Students Experiencing Financial Hardships and Foster Youth$5.5 millionaction 3.5 · p. 111 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $1.9 million is state funding counted toward those services
Support Services for Foster Youth and Low Income Students Regarding Socio-emotional Well-Being$4.1 millionaction 3.8 · p. 111 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $1.5 million is state funding counted toward those services
Decrease Chronic Absenteeism$3.4 millionaction 3.4 · p. 111 ↗
3 more funded actions in this goal
Staff and Community Training to Support the Needs of Unduplicated Students · action 3.3 · p. 111 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $890,115 is state funding counted toward those services$1.4 million
Safety Training for All Appropriate Staff · action 3.1 · p. 111 ↗$0.7 million
Climate and Community Building · action 3.7 · p. 111 ↗$0.6 million
Changes from last year’s plan, same title
Physical, Social, and Emotional Health and Well-being of Students+$0.9 million$6.5 million → $7.4 million · p. 111 ↗
Wrap-around Services for Physical Well-being of Students Experiencing Financial Hardships and Foster Youth+$0.8 million$4.7 million → $5.5 million · p. 111 ↗
Support Services for Foster Youth and Low Income Students Regarding Socio-emotional Well-Being+$0.7 million$3.4 million → $4.1 million · p. 111 ↗
Every other line in this goal, against last year’s plan
Safe Facilities · $17.4 million → $17.2 million · p. 111 ↗−$0.1 million
Decrease Chronic Absenteeism · $3.4 million → $3.4 million · p. 111 ↗−$11,891
Staff and Community Training to Support the Needs of Unduplicated Students · $1.2 million → $1.4 million · p. 111 ↗+$0.2 million
Safety Training for All Appropriate Staff · $738,061 → $702,393 · p. 111 ↗−$35,668
Climate and Community Building · $563,031 → $631,538 · p. 111 ↗+$68,507
Goal 4Promote engagement of all families through open, effective communication and by providing families meaningful…$6.6 million3% of action budgets
“Promote engagement of all families through open, effective communication and by providing families meaningful opportunities to support and celebrate student learning and cultures” p. 84 ↗
4 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $8.4 million (−$1.8 million)
Largest funded actions
Practices that promote connection through communication$2.3 millionaction 4.1 · p. 111 ↗
Family Engagement in Student Success$2.1 millionaction 4.2 · p. 111 ↗
Practices of Connection and Strategic Engagement of Families of of English Learners (including LTELs), Foster Youth, Students Experiencing Economic Hardship$1.8 millionaction 4.4 · p. 112 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $1.4 million is state funding counted toward those services
Parental Engagement in Showcase Opportunities$0.4 millionaction 4.3 · p. 112 ↗
Changes from last year’s plan, same title
Practices of Connection and Strategic Engagement of Families of of English Learners (including LTELs), Foster Youth, Students Experiencing Economic Hardship−$0.6 million$2.5 million → $1.8 million · p. 112 ↗
Family Engagement in Student Success−$0.6 million$2.7 million → $2.1 million · p. 111 ↗
Practices that promote connection through communication−$0.6 million$2.8 million → $2.3 million · p. 111 ↗
Every other line in this goal, against last year’s plan
Parental Engagement in Showcase Opportunities · $422,697 → $438,272 · p. 112 ↗+$15,575
How the plan measures it · 6 measures
None of these has an all-students line we can quote; the plan’s table lists them from p. 84 ↗.
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, 11,262 students
1Hispanic or Latino51%
2Asian24%
3White15%
4Two or more races5%
5Filipino3%
6Black or African American1%
7American Indian or Alaska Native<1%
8Pacific Islander<1%
9Not reported0%
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
53%
Across California, 63% of students qualify.
2024–25 · 5,979 of 11,247 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 Fullerton Elementary 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, 47% of the district’s English learners moved up at least one level on the state’s English test (ELPAC), or stayed at the top (584 of 1,232 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 the Fullerton Elementary district rank highest?
Elementary: Beechwood Elementary, 99th percentile (Strong). Middle: Robert C. Fisler Elementary, 98th 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 Fullerton Elementary 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.
More questions (5)
Are the public schools in the Fullerton Elementary district good?
Fullerton Elementary’s 17 public elementary schools run from the 15th to the 99th percentile among the 5,726 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests). By band: 7 Strong, 4 Solid, 4 Developing and 2 Needs Support. Fullerton Elementary’s 5 public middle schools run from the 30th to the 98th percentile among the 2,529 California middle schools we score (spring 2026 tests). By band: 3 Strong, 1 Solid 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 the Fullerton Elementary district compare with California?
The average elementary school in the Fullerton Elementary district had 10 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 the Fullerton Elementary district had 9 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 the Fullerton Elementary district spend per student?
The Fullerton Elementary district spent $17,654 per student in the 2024–25 school year. The typical California district spent $20,491. About 63 cents of every Fullerton Elementary 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 the Fullerton Elementary district’s 2026–27 spending plan?
The district’s 2026–27 spending plan puts $192.7 million into 32 funded actions in 4 goals, 92% of its $210.1 million general fund budget. Its largest goal holds $138.4 million, 72% of the action budgets. The 2026–27 plan, goal by goal.
Where do these results come from?
California’s state tests (CAASPP) from spring 2026 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 the Fullerton Elementary district, with the district’s spending and state accountability records.
Data source: California Department of Education · CAASPP 2025–26
Percentiles, bands and Scope Scores are SchoolScope’s own calculations from these state files.