Glendora Unified’s 5 public elementary schools run from the 49th to the 80th percentile among the 5,726 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests).
Elementary · 5 schools
from 49th to 80th · among 5,726 California elementary schools we score · spring 2026 tests
Sellers Elementary: 80th percentile, Strong
Cullen Elementary: 74th percentile, Solid
Sutherland Elementary: 73rd percentile, Solid
La Fetra Elementary: 69th percentile, Solid
Stanton Elementary: 49th percentile, Developing
0Needs Support
1Developing
3Solid
1Strong
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One dot per school.
Middle and high school pictures
Middle · 2 schools
from 78th to 88th · among 2,529 California middle schools we score · spring 2026 tests
Goddard Middle: 88th percentile, Strong
Sandburg Middle: 78th percentile, Strong
0Needs Support
0Developing
0Solid
2Strong
High · 1 school
at 83rd · among 1,498 California high schools we score · spring 2025 tests
Glendora High: 83rd percentile, Strong
0Needs Support
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One dot per school. Each stage is placed only among California schools at its own level.
The average elementary school in Glendora Unified had 8 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 Glendora Unified score highest?
Goddard Middle is highest, at the 88th percentile.
That’s higher than 88 in 100 of the 2,529 California middle schools we score (spring 2026 tests).
Highest in Glendora Unified
Each percentile compares a school with California schools at its own level. What patterns mean
Where does the high school we score in Glendora Unified stand?
Glendora High is at the 83rd percentile.
That’s higher than 83 in 100 of the 1,498 California high schools we score (spring 2025 tests). It’s the only public high school we score in Glendora Unified.
Each percentile compares a school with California schools at its own level.
Where does Glendora Unified’s money go, and what does it plan?
Glendora Unified spent $16,797 per student in the 2024–25 school year.
The typical California district spent $20,491. About 68 cents of every Glendora 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
Instruction68%
Instruction support10%
Student services6%
Administration6%
Buildings & maintenance9%
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
$10.0 million
planned in its 2026–27 plan for 22 funded actions in 4 goals. That’s 9% of its $109.6 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, 90 pages), as posted to the California School Dashboard.
Where the money goes
Three actions take 59% of the money. The plan itself puts 78% of it toward staff.
Maintain increased Counselors and Student Support Specialists $3.6 million
Innovative Technology $1.2 million
Academic Support and Intervention $1.1 million
19 other actions
Reading, math and catch-up help
2 of the plan’s 22 funded actions name reading, math, catch-up help or English learners in their titles.
Actions whose titles name catch-up help or English learners
Catch-up help $1.1 million
English learners $0.6 million
Largest of these
Academic Support and Intervention$1.1 million
Support EL Achievement$614,773
For high-need students (English learners, low-income students and foster youth) and what changed
For high-need students
It plans $4.5 million in extra services for English learners, low-income students and foster youth. For 2025–26, it planned $5.2 million and estimates it spent $5.2 million, within 1% of the plan.
$5.2 million spent (estimated)$5.2 million planned
What changed
The total is $205,358 (2%) lower than in the 2025–26 plan. The biggest change in dollars is Academic Support and Intervention, which went from $1.9 million to $1.1 million.
Largest cuts
Academic Support and Intervention−$732,345
Technology Infrastructure for Safe Schools:−$492,108
Extended School Year:−$333,732
Largest increases
Safe Schools+$527,053
Innovative Technology+$514,961
Equitable Distribution+$278,860
New in the 2026–27 plan
Digital Security$36,594
Ask: What did Academic Support and Intervention pay for, and what changes now that the 2026–27 plan gives it $732,345 less?
The plan’s own titles and amounts
Maintain increased Counselors and Student Support Specialists · $3,590,895
Innovative Technology · $1,153,171
Academic Support and Intervention · $1,123,960
The full plan4 goals, 8 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 ($10.0 million).
Where does the money go?
48% 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 1Goal 1: Student Achievement (Priority 1, 2, 4, 7, 8) To prepare students for college and career readiness…$4.8 million48% of action budgets
“Goal 1: Student Achievement (Priority 1, 2, 4, 7, 8) To prepare students for college and career readiness upon graduation, Glendora Unified will increase all students by 3% and Unduplicated Pupils (UDPs) by 5% as measured by the state assessments in mathematics and English Language Arts” p. 10 ↗
9 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $5.4 million (−$577,672)
Largest funded actions
Innovative Technology$1.2 millionaction 1.5 · p. 50 ↗
Academic Support and Intervention$1.1 millionaction 1.7 · p. 50 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $239,233 is state funding counted toward those services
Support EL Achievement$0.6 millionaction 1.6 · p. 50 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
AVID$0.5 millionaction 1.1 · p. 49 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
Innovative Programs$0.5 millionaction 1.9 · p. 50 ↗
4 more funded actions in this goal
Equitable Distribution · action 1.2 · p. 50 ↗$0.3 million
Extended School Year: · action 1.8 · p. 50 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $2,587 is state funding counted toward those services$0.3 million
College and Career Readiness · action 1.3 · p. 50 ↗$0.2 million
Educator Capacity · action 1.4 · p. 50 ↗$0.1 million
Changes from last year’s plan, same title
Academic Support and Intervention−$0.7 million$1.9 million → $1.1 million · p. 50 ↗
Innovative Technology+$0.5 million$0.6 million → $1.2 million · p. 50 ↗
Extended School Year:−$333,732$591,618 → $257,886 · p. 50 ↗
Every other line in this goal, against last year’s plan
Support EL Achievement · $590,271 → $614,773 · p. 50 ↗+$24,502
Innovative Programs · $525,936 → $495,313 · p. 50 ↗−$30,623
Equitable Distribution · $26,140 → $305,000 · p. 50 ↗+$278,860
College and Career Readiness · $208,841 → $209,791 · p. 50 ↗+$950
Educator Capacity · $218,645 → $103,021 · p. 50 ↗−$115,624
How the plan measures it · 3 measures · 1 quoted
Access to Standards– Aligned Instructional Materials as reported by Fall Williams’ Textbook Sufficiency Reportp. 11 ↗
Baseline
2022-2023: 100% compliant
Target for year 3
100% Compliant
2 more measures in the plan’s table.
Goal 2Goal 2: Student Attendance & Engagement (Priority 5, 6, 8) GUSD will increase average daily attendance by…$4.1 million41% of action budgets
“Goal 2: Student Attendance & Engagement (Priority 5, 6, 8) GUSD will increase average daily attendance by 1.5% and decrease chronic absenteeism by 1% overall and by 3% specifically in SWD over the next 3-years through a focus on attendance awareness and support, student engagement, and a positive climate at each campus” p. 25 ↗
7 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $3.8 million (+$308,030)
Largest funded actions
Maintain increased Counselors and Student Support Specialists$3.6 millionaction 2.5 · p. 50 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $2.7 million is state funding counted toward those services
Integrated, Systemic Approach to Social Emotional Learning$0.4 millionaction 2.3 · p. 50 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
Attendance Systems and Supportunder $0.1 millionaction 2.1 · p. 50 ↗
Student Voice and Participationunder $0.1 millionaction 2.7 · p. 51 ↗
Positive Climate and Connectednessunder $0.1 millionaction 2.6 · p. 50 ↗
2 more funded actions in this goal
Promote Cultural Esteem · action 2.4 · p. 50 ↗under $0.1 million
Attendance Education for Educational Partners · action 2.2 · p. 50 ↗under $0.1 million
Changes from last year’s plan, same title
Maintain increased Counselors and Student Support Specialists+$0.3 million$3.3 million → $3.6 million · p. 50 ↗
Integrated, Systemic Approach to Social Emotional Learning+$59,376$371,498 → $430,874 · p. 50 ↗
Attendance Education for Educational Partners−$43,249$43,849 → $600 · p. 50 ↗
Every other line in this goal, against last year’s plan
Attendance Systems and Support · $1,620 → $23,000 · p. 50 ↗+$21,380
Student Voice and Participation · $21,000 · p. 51 ↗new or renamed
Positive Climate and Connectedness · $6,152 → $6,700 · p. 50 ↗+$548
Promote Cultural Esteem · $5,097 → $5,097 · p. 50 ↗unchanged
A reworded title counts as new.
How the plan measures it · 1 measure
None of these has an all-students line we can quote; the plan’s table lists them from p. 25 ↗.
Goal 3Goal 3: Family and Community Engagement (Priority 3, 8) Glendora Unified will encourage and provide…$45,715under 1% of action budgets
“Goal 3: Family and Community Engagement (Priority 3, 8) Glendora Unified will encourage and provide opportunities to engage family and community partners including communication access in multiple languages. Particular focus will be to engage families of our underrepresented youth including but not limited to English Learners, Socioeconomically disadvantaged, students with disabilities, and foster youth as measured by the number of district-level family engagement opportunities” p. 33 ↗
Family Education Nights−$25,015$25,815 → $800 · p. 51 ↗
Communication Systems+$17,760$6,940 → $24,700 · p. 51 ↗
Every other line in this goal, against last year’s plan
Family and community voice · $20,215 → $20,215 · p. 51 ↗unchanged
How the plan measures it · 3 measures · 1 quoted
LCAP Family Survey: The School is Welcoming to Parentsp. 34 ↗
Baseline
2024: 81% state "the school is welcoming to parents"
Target for year 3
2027: 84% state "the school is welcoming to parents"
2 more measures in the plan’s table.
Goal 4Safe Schools (Priority 1, 6)$1.1 million11% of action budgets
“The district will maintain physically and digitally safe school environments to ensure students and staff are supported in their teaching and learning endeavors” p. 38 ↗
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, 6,376 students
1Hispanic or Latino50%
2White27%
3Asian13%
4Two or more races6%
5Filipino2%
6Black or African American1%
7American Indian or Alaska Native<1%
8Not reported<1%
9Pacific Islander<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
23%
Across California, 63% of students qualify.
2024–25 · 1,471 of 6,362 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 Glendora 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, 42% of the district’s English learners moved up at least one level on the state’s English test (ELPAC), or stayed at the top (95 of 225 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 Glendora Unified rank highest?
Elementary: Sellers Elementary, 80th percentile (Strong). Middle: Goddard Middle, 88th percentile (Strong). High: Glendora High, 83rd 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 Glendora 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.
More questions (5)
Are the public schools in Glendora Unified good?
Glendora Unified’s 5 public elementary schools run from the 49th to the 80th percentile among the 5,726 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests). By band: 1 Strong, 3 Solid and 1 Developing. Glendora Unified’s 2 public middle schools run from the 78th to the 88th percentile among the 2,529 California middle schools we score (spring 2026 tests). By band: 2 Strong. Glendora Unified has one public high school we score, Glendora High, at the 83rd 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 does chronic absence in Glendora Unified compare with California?
The average elementary school in Glendora Unified had 8 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. These are averages of school rates: each school counts once, whatever its size.
How much does Glendora Unified spend per student?
Glendora Unified spent $16,797 per student in the 2024–25 school year. The typical California district spent $20,491. About 68 cents of every Glendora 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 Glendora Unified’s 2026–27 spending plan?
The district’s 2026–27 spending plan puts $10.0 million into 22 funded actions in 4 goals, 9% of its $109.6 million general fund budget. Its largest goal holds $4.8 million, 48% 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 Glendora 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.