School district · San Bernardino County

Helendale Elementary schools

Helendale Elementary’s 5 public middle schools run from the 10th to the 89th percentile among the 2,529 California middle schools we score (spring 2026 tests). They sit in three of the four bands: Strong, Solid and Needs Support.

Middle · 5 schools

from 10th to 89th · among 2,529 California middle schools we score · spring 2026 tests

  • Excel Academy Charter: 89th percentile, Strong
  • Sage Oak Charter: 78th percentile, Strong
  • Empire Springs Charter: 65th percentile, Solid
  • Independence Charter Academy: 13th percentile, Needs Support
  • Riverview Middle: 10th percentile, Needs Support
2Needs Support
0Developing
1Solid
2Strong

One dot per school.

Elementary and high school pictures

Elementary · 4 schools

from 42nd to 76th · among 5,726 California elementary schools we score · spring 2026 tests

  • Excel Academy Charter: 76th percentile, Strong
  • Sage Oak Charter: 70th percentile, Solid
  • Empire Springs Charter: 55th percentile, Solid
  • Helendale Elementary: 42nd percentile, Developing
0Needs Support
1Developing
2Solid
1Strong

High · 4 schools

from 23rd to 78th · among 1,498 California high schools we score · spring 2025 tests

  • Sage Oak Charter: 78th percentile, Strong
  • Excel Academy Charter: 76th percentile, Strong
  • Empire Springs Charter: 45th percentile, Developing
  • Academy of Careers and Exploration: 23rd percentile, Needs Support
1Needs Support
1Developing
0Solid
2Strong

One dot per school. Each stage is placed only among California schools at its own level. 3 of the 7 ranked schools teach all three levels, so they appear in more than one picture.

  • 7 ranked schools
  • 5 of 7 are charter schools
  • 1 school not ranked statewide

Schools around the Helendale Elementary district

8 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 the Helendale Elementary district score highest?

Excel Academy Charter is highest, at the 76th percentile.

That’s higher than 76 in 100 of the 5,726 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests).

Highest in the Helendale Elementary district

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

  • Excel Academy CharterIrvine · Charter school. Check how it admits students.
    76thStrongScope Score 50
  • Sage Oak CharterRedlands · Charter school. Check how it admits students.
    70thSolidScope Score 47
  • Empire Springs CharterTemecula · Charter school. Check how it admits students.
    55thSolidScope Score 38
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Context

The average elementary school in the Helendale Elementary district had 9 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 Helendale Elementary district score highest?

Excel Academy Charter is highest, at the 89th percentile.

That’s higher than 89 in 100 of the 2,529 California middle schools we score (spring 2026 tests).

Highest in the Helendale Elementary district

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

  • Excel Academy CharterIrvine · Charter school. Check how it admits students.
    89thStrongScope Score 64
  • Sage Oak CharterRedlands · Charter school. Check how it admits students.
    78thStrongScope Score 52
  • Empire Springs CharterTemecula · Charter school. Check how it admits students.
    65thSolidScope Score 45
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Context

The average middle school in the Helendale Elementary district had 18 in 100 students chronically absent in 2025–26; the average California middle school we score had 18 in 100.

High schools

Which high schools in the Helendale Elementary district score highest?

Sage Oak Charter is highest, at the 78th percentile.

That’s higher than 78 in 100 of the 1,498 California high schools we score (spring 2025 tests).

Highest in the Helendale Elementary district

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

  • Sage Oak CharterRedlands · Charter school. Check how it admits students.
    78thStrongScope Score 67
  • Excel Academy CharterIrvine · Charter school. Check how it admits students.
    76thStrongScope Score 66
  • Empire Springs CharterTemecula · Charter school. Check how it admits students.
    45thDevelopingScope Score 54
Show the other 1 high school
Context

The average high school in the Helendale Elementary district had 11 in 100 students chronically absent in 2025–26; the average California high school we score had 22 in 100.

1 high school not ranked statewide

The district

Where does Helendale Elementary’s money go, and what does it plan?

The Helendale Elementary district spent $18,003 per student in the 2024–25 school year.

The typical California district spent $20,491. About 61 cents of every Helendale 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

  • Instruction61%
  • Instruction support10%
  • Student services7%
  • Administration14%
  • Buildings & maintenance8%

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

$1.4 million

planned in its 2026–27 plan for 14 funded actions in 3 goals. That’s 8% of its $16.4 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, 108 pages), as posted to the California School Dashboard.

Where the money goes

Three actions take 69% of the money. The plan itself puts 57% of it toward staff.

  • Lower Class Size in all schools $432,312
  • Transportation $370,000
  • School Counselor $157,862
  • 11 other actions
Reading, math and catch-up help

2 of the plan’s 14 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 $5,122
  • English learners $46,333

Largest of these

  • Bilingual Aides$46,333
  • After School Tutoring$5,122
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 $1.3 million in extra services for English learners, low-income students and foster youth. For 2025–26, it planned $1.3 million and estimates it spent $1.3 million, under $0.1 million (2%) more than planned (our arithmetic).

What changed

The total is $35,214 (3%) higher than in the 2025–26 plan. The biggest change in dollars is Technology, which went from $200,000 to $100,000.

Largest cuts

  • Technology−⁠$100,000

Largest increases

  • Lower Class Size in all schools+⁠$68,079
  • Supplemental Curriculum+⁠$45,000
  • Parent and Community Communication+⁠$9,220

Ask: What did Technology pay for, and what changes now that the 2026–27 plan gives it $100,000 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
Measure2024–252025–26Change
English, every tested grade: Proficient or Advanced in 2025–26, met or exceeded in 2024–25Goal 1 · Excel in Learning40%39%down 1 pt
Math, every tested grade: Proficient or Advanced in 2025–26, met or exceeded in 2024–25Goal 1 · Excel in Learning31%28%down 3 pts
Chronically absentCounted across all the district’s students, not averaged by schoolGoal 2 · Thriving Environment23 in 10027 in 1004 more in 100
Suspended at least onceGoal 2 · Thriving Environment3.1%5.0%up 1.9 pts

Goal 3 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
  • Lower Class Size in all schools · $432,312
  • Transportation · $370,000
  • School Counselor · $157,862
The full plan3 goals, 31 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 ($1.4 million).

Where does the money go?

78% to Goal 1, Excel in Learning. 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

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 1Excel in Learning$1.1 million78% of action budgets

“Drive students' academic success with engaging, challenging curriculum and effective interventions” p. 19 ↗

9 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $1.1 million (+⁠$19,295)

Largest funded actions

  1. Lower Class Size in all schools$432,312action 1.3 · p. 70 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $393,044 is state funding counted toward those services
  2. Transportation$370,000action 1.5 · p. 70 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  3. Technology$100,000action 1.1 · p. 70 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  4. Supplemental Curriculum$75,000action 1.2 · p. 70 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  5. Bilingual Aides$46,333action 1.6 · p. 70 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services

4 more funded actions in this goal

  • Professional Development · action 1.4 · p. 70 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$25,000
  • Teacher Induction Program · action 1.7 · p. 70 ↗$15,000
  • After School Tutoring · action 1.8 · p. 70 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$5,122
  • Support for Students with Disabilities (SWD) · action 1.9 · p. 70 ↗$3,000

Changes from last year’s plan, same title

  1. Technology−⁠$100,000$200,000 → $100,000 · p. 70 ↗
  2. Lower Class Size in all schools+⁠$68,079$364,233 → $432,312 · p. 70 ↗
  3. Supplemental Curriculum+⁠$45,000$30,000 → $75,000 · p. 70 ↗

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

  • Transportation · $369,713 → $370,000 · p. 70 ↗+⁠$287
  • Bilingual Aides · $48,002 → $46,333 · p. 70 ↗−⁠$1,669
  • Professional Development · $20,000 → $25,000 · p. 70 ↗+⁠$5,000
  • Teacher Induction Program · $14,400 → $15,000 · p. 70 ↗+⁠$600
  • After School Tutoring · $5,124 → $5,122 · p. 70 ↗−⁠$2
  • Support for Students with Disabilities (SWD) · $1,000 → $3,000 · p. 70 ↗+⁠$2,000

How the plan measures it · 13 measures · 2 quoted

  • Teacher Misassignment Percentage Rate p. 21 ↗
    Baseline
    District maintained a 0% teacher misassignment. (Local Data 2023-24)
    Target for year 3
    0% teacher misassignment
  • Attendance Rate Percentage Rate p. 23 ↗
    Baseline
    92.68% Daily Attendance Rate (Local Data 2022-23)
    Target for year 3
    95% Daily Attendance Rate

11 more measures in the plan’s table.

Goal 2Thriving Environment$295,64821% of action budgets

“Create a supportive and welcoming school climate that promotes student well-being” p. 34 ↗

3 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $288,949 (+⁠$6,699)

Largest funded actions

  1. School Counselor$157,862action 2.2 · p. 71 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  2. Director Student Support$127,586action 2.3 · p. 71 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  3. School Climate and Culture$10,200action 2.1 · p. 70 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services

Changes from last year’s plan, same title

  1. School Counselor+⁠$6,621$151,241 → $157,862 · p. 71 ↗
  2. School Climate and Culture+⁠$200$10,000 → $10,200 · p. 70 ↗
  3. Director Student Support−⁠$122$127,708 → $127,586 · p. 71 ↗

How the plan measures it · 9 measures · 3 quoted

  • High Level Office Referrals Number of High Level Office Referrals for All Students p. 35 ↗
    Baseline
    All Students - 42 High Level Referral (Local Data 2023/24)
    Target for year 3
    All Students - 20 High Level Referrals
  • Attendance Rate Percentage Rate p. 36 ↗
    Baseline
    District - 94.86% (Local Data 2023/24)
    Target for year 3
    District - 96%
  • Expulsion Rate Percentage Rate p. 36 ↗
    Baseline
    0% (Local Data 2023/24)
    Target for year 3
    0%

6 more measures in the plan’s table.

Goal 3Partners in Education$15,0001% of action budgets

“Build strong relationships with families and the community to enhance educational outcomes” p. 45 ↗

2 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $5,780 (+⁠$9,220)

Largest funded actions

  1. Parent and Community Communication$14,000action 3.1 · p. 71 ↗
  2. Parent and Community Involvement$1,000action 3.2 · p. 71 ↗

Changes from last year’s plan, same title

  1. Parent and Community Communication+⁠$9,220$4,780 → $14,000 · p. 71 ↗

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

  • Parent and Community Involvement · $1,000 → $1,000 · p. 71 ↗unchanged

How the plan measures it · 9 measures · 1 quoted

  • Participation with Helendale School District PAC Number of attendees Local Metric p. 45 ↗
    Baseline
    2023/2024 4 parents attended the May 2024 meeting Local Data
    Target for year 3
    10 Attendees per meeting

8 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, 8,145 students
1. Hispanic or Latino: 49%2. White: 34%3. Two or more races: 6%4. Black or African American: 4%5. Asian: 3%6. Filipino: 1%7. Not reported: <1%8. Pacific Islander: <1%9. American Indian or Alaska Native: <1%Student mix2024–25
  1. Hispanic or Latino49%
  2. White34%
  3. Two or more races6%
  4. Black or African American4%
  5. Asian3%
  6. Filipino1%
  7. Not reported<1%
  8. Pacific Islander<1%
  9. American 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

53%

Across California, 63% of students qualify.

2024–25 · 4,288 of 8,145 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 Helendale 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, 41% of the district’s English learners moved up at least one level on the state’s English test (ELPAC), or stayed at the top (12 of 29 students). California: 47%. It counts students moving up the test’s levels, so a student can count here before becoming fluent.

1 school getting state support, 2025–26

Helendale Elementary (Extra 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 the Helendale Elementary district rank highest?

Elementary: Excel Academy Charter, 76th percentile (Strong). Middle: Excel Academy Charter, 89th percentile (Strong). High: Sage Oak Charter, 78th 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 Helendale 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.
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Are the public schools in the Helendale Elementary district good?

Helendale Elementary’s 4 public elementary schools run from the 42nd to the 76th percentile among the 5,726 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests). By band: 1 Strong, 2 Solid and 1 Developing. Helendale Elementary’s 5 public middle schools run from the 10th to the 89th percentile among the 2,529 California middle schools we score (spring 2026 tests). By band: 2 Strong, 1 Solid and 2 Needs Support. Helendale Elementary’s 4 public high schools run from the 23rd to the 78th percentile among the 1,498 California high schools we score (spring 2025 tests). By band: 2 Strong, 1 Developing and 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 the Helendale Elementary district compare with California?

The average elementary school in the Helendale Elementary district had 9 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 Helendale Elementary district had 18 in 100 students chronically absent in 2025–26; the average California middle school we score had 18 in 100. The average high school in the Helendale Elementary district had 11 in 100 students chronically absent in 2025–26; the average California high school we score had 22 in 100. These are averages of school rates: each school counts once, whatever its size.

How much does the Helendale Elementary district spend per student?

The Helendale Elementary district spent $18,003 per student in the 2024–25 school year. The typical California district spent $20,491. About 61 cents of every Helendale 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 Helendale Elementary district’s 2026–27 spending plan?

The district’s 2026–27 spending plan puts $1.4 million into 14 funded actions in 3 goals, 8% of its $16.4 million general fund budget. Its largest goal holds $1.1 million, 78% 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 the Helendale Elementary district, 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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