Healdsburg Unified has one ranked public school at each stage. Healdsburg Elementary is at the 81st percentile, Healdsburg Junior High the 74th and Healdsburg High the 73rd, each among the California schools we score at its level (spring 2026 tests; high schools, spring 2025).
Recorded path: Healdsburg Elementary → Healdsburg Junior High → Healdsburg High. Boundaries come from the U.S. Department of Education’s School Attendance Boundary Survey, a 2015-16 collection and the most recent national one — they are approximate and may since have changed.
Where does Healdsburg Unified’s money go, and what does it plan?
Healdsburg Unified spent $29,852 per student in the 2024–25 school year.
The typical California district spent $20,491. About 56 cents of every Healdsburg 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
Instruction56%
Instruction support14%
Student services10%
Administration8%
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
$17.4 million
planned in its 2026–27 plan for 12 funded actions in 4 goals. That’s 47% of its $37.2 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, 103 pages), as posted to the California School Dashboard.
Where the money goes
Three actions take 61% of the money. The plan itself puts 63% of it toward staff.
Learning Environment $5.6 million
Services for Students with Disabilities (SWD) $3.3 million
Active Learning $1.6 million
9 other actions
Reading, math and catch-up help
1 of the plan’s 12 funded actions names reading, math, catch-up help or English learners in its title.
Actions whose titles name catch-up help
Catch-up help $1.4 million
Largest of these
Multi-tiered Systems of Support (MTSS)$1.4 million
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 $4.7 million in extra services for English learners, low-income students and foster youth. For 2025–26, it planned $4.8 million and estimates it spent $4.7 million, $0.1 million (2%) less than planned (our arithmetic).
$4.7 million spent (estimated)$4.8 million planned
What changed
The total is $1.7 million (10%) higher than in the 2025–26 plan. The biggest change in dollars is Learning Environment, which went from $4.1 million to $5.6 million.
Largest cuts
Multi-tiered Systems of Support (MTSS)−$289,728
Early Learning−$141,533
School Climate−$59,769
Largest increases
Learning Environment+$1.5 million
Student, Family, and Community Engagement+$447,954
Active Learning+$124,767
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 · Rigor
57%
56%
down 1 pt
Math, every tested grade: Proficient or Advanced in 2025–26, met or exceeded in 2024–25Goal 1 · Rigor
41%
48%
up 7 pts
Chronically absentCounted across all the district’s students, not averaged by schoolGoal 2 · Relevance
24 in 100
18 in 100
6 fewer in 100
Suspended at least onceGoal 3 · Relationships
3.3%
3.3%
no change
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
Learning Environment · $5,555,860
Services for Students with Disabilities (SWD) · $3,323,597
Active Learning · $1,643,738
The full plan4 goals, 47 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 ($17.4 million).
Where does the money go?
67% to Goal 1, Rigor. 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 1Rigor$11.6 million67% of action budgets
“Use the current content standards and frameworks to ensure that all students progress in their ability to communicate, collaborate and think critically while removing the traditional predictors of success” p. 22 ↗
5 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $10.5 million (+$1.1 million)
Largest funded actions
Learning Environment$5.6 millionaction 1.5 · p. 66 ↗
Services for Students with Disabilities (SWD)$3.3 millionaction 1.4 · p. 66 ↗
Multi-tiered Systems of Support (MTSS)$1.4 millionaction 1.2 · p. 66 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $996,737 is state funding counted toward those services
Implementation of Standards/Frameworks$1.1 millionaction 1.1 · p. 66 ↗
Early Learning$0.3 millionaction 1.3 · p. 66 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $65,835 is state funding counted toward those services
Changes from last year’s plan, same title
Learning Environment+$1.5 million$4.1 million → $5.6 million · p. 66 ↗
Multi-tiered Systems of Support (MTSS)−$0.3 million$1.7 million → $1.4 million · p. 66 ↗
Early Learning−$141,533$393,467 → $251,934 · p. 66 ↗
Every other line in this goal, against last year’s plan
Services for Students with Disabilities (SWD) · $3.2 million → $3.3 million · p. 66 ↗+$0.1 million
Implementation of Standards/Frameworks · $1.1 million → $1.1 million · p. 66 ↗−$10,811
How the plan measures it · 19 measures · 2 quoted
ENGLISH LEARNER ACCESS (Local Data) % with access to CA Standards, including ELD Standardsp. 24 ↗
Baseline
2023-2024 100%
Target for year 3
100%
COURSE OF STUDY (Local Indicator) % of students who have access to a broad course of study (see local indicator report for more details)p. 24 ↗
Baseline
2023-2024 100%
Target for year 3
100%
17 more measures in the plan’s table.
Goal 2Relevance$3.0 million17% of action budgets
“Learning and instruction are active, student-centered, based in inquiry and connected to the world outside of school” p. 36 ↗
3 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $2.8 million (+$196,770)
Largest funded actions
Active Learning$1.6 millionaction 2.2 · p. 66 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $1.2 million is state funding counted toward those services
College and Career Readiness$1.0 millionaction 2.1 · p. 66 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $893,559 is state funding counted toward those services
Multilingualism for All$0.4 millionaction 2.3 · p. 66 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $342,445 is state funding counted toward those services
Changes from last year’s plan, same title
Active Learning+$0.1 million$1.5 million → $1.6 million · p. 66 ↗
Multilingualism for All+$39,306$329,918 → $369,225 · p. 66 ↗
College and Career Readiness+$32,697$942,990 → $975,686 · p. 66 ↗
Goal 3Relationships$2.4 million14% of action budgets
“All Students and families are well supported, their voice is valued and our learning environments foster equity, empathy and engagement through listening, trust and respect” p. 45 ↗
2 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $2.1 million (+$388,185)
Largest funded actions
School Climate$1.5 millionaction 3.2 · p. 66 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $1.2 million is state funding counted toward those services
Student, Family, and Community Engagement$1.0 millionaction 3.1 · p. 66 ↗
Changes from last year’s plan, same title
Student, Family, and Community Engagement+$447,954$511,100 → $959,054 · p. 66 ↗
School Climate−$0.1 million$1.5 million → $1.5 million · p. 66 ↗
Goal 4 · Equity Multiplier Focus GoalMarce Becerra Academy Equity Multiplier Goal$331,4552% of action budgets
“All students will engage in student-directed, real-world learning supported by caring mentors and equitable opportunities to achieve their greatest potential. On the 2025 CA Dashboard, which reflects the work of the 2024-2025 school year, the suspension rate for Marce Becerra Academy will be less than 10%” p. 54 ↗
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, 1,236 students
1Hispanic or Latino63%
2White32%
3Two or more races2%
4Asian1%
5American Indian or Alaska Native<1%
6Black or African American<1%
7Filipino<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
65%
Across California, 63% of students qualify.
2024–25 · 789 of 1,221 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 Healdsburg 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, 54% of the district’s English learners moved up at least one level on the state’s English test (ELPAC), or stayed at the top (68 of 127 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 Healdsburg Unified rank highest?
Elementary: Healdsburg Elementary, 81st percentile (Strong). Middle: Healdsburg Junior High, 74th percentile (Solid). High: Healdsburg High, 73rd percentile (Solid). 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 Healdsburg 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 (4)
Are the public schools in Healdsburg Unified good?
Healdsburg Unified has one public elementary school we score, Healdsburg Elementary, at the 81st percentile among the 5,726 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests). By band: 1 Strong. Healdsburg Unified has one public middle school we score, Healdsburg Junior High, at the 74th percentile among the 2,529 California middle schools we score (spring 2026 tests). By band: 1 Solid. Healdsburg Unified has one public high school we score, Healdsburg High, at the 73rd percentile among the 1,498 California high schools we score (spring 2025 tests). By band: 1 Solid. A percentile compares a school with California public schools at the same level that we score. How we score schools.
How much does Healdsburg Unified spend per student?
Healdsburg Unified spent $29,852 per student in the 2024–25 school year. The typical California district spent $20,491. About 56 cents of every Healdsburg 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 Healdsburg Unified’s 2026–27 spending plan?
The district’s 2026–27 spending plan puts $17.4 million into 12 funded actions in 4 goals, 47% of its $37.2 million general fund budget. Its largest goal holds $11.6 million, 67% 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 Healdsburg 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.