School district · Placer County

Loomis Union Elementary schools

Loomis Union Elementary runs schools through 8th grade. Its 7 public elementary schools run from the 53rd to the 91st percentile among the 5,726 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests). High school is run by another district; confirm the school for your address with the district.

Elementary · 7 schools

from 53rd to 91st · among 5,726 California elementary schools we score · spring 2026 tests

  • Loomis Basin Charter: 91st percentile, Strong
  • Loomis Elementary: 91st percentile, Strong
  • Penryn Elementary: 89th percentile, Strong
  • Placer Elementary: 85th percentile, Strong
  • Franklin Elementary: 81st percentile, Strong
  • H. Clarke Powers Elementary: 77th percentile, Strong
  • Ophir STEAM Academy: 53rd percentile, Solid
0Needs Support
0Developing
1Solid
6Strong

Middle · 7 schools

from 48th to 96th · among 2,529 California middle schools we score · spring 2026 tests

  • Loomis Basin Charter: 96th percentile, Strong
  • Penryn Elementary: 92nd percentile, Strong
  • Ophir STEAM Academy: 90th percentile, Strong
  • Franklin Elementary: 89th percentile, Strong
  • Placer Elementary: 87th percentile, Strong
  • H. Clarke Powers Elementary: 77th percentile, Strong
  • Loomis Elementary: 48th percentile, Developing
0Needs Support
1Developing
0Solid
6Strong

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

  • 7 ranked schools

Schools around the Loomis Union Elementary district

7 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 Loomis Union Elementary district score highest?

Loomis Basin Charter and Loomis Elementary are highest, both at the 91st percentile.

That’s higher than 91 in 100 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests).

Highest in the Loomis Union Elementary district

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

  • Loomis Basin CharterLoomis · Broad base · Grade-to-grade gains · Charter school. Check how it admits students.
    91stStrongScope Score 67
  • Loomis ElementaryLoomis · Broad base · Grade-to-grade gains
    91stStrongScope Score 67
  • Penryn ElementaryPenryn · Broad base
    89thStrongScope Score 64
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Context

The average elementary school in the Loomis Union Elementary district 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 the Loomis Union Elementary district score highest?

Loomis Basin Charter is highest, at the 96th percentile.

That’s higher than 96 in 100 California middle schools we score (spring 2026 tests).

Highest in the Loomis Union Elementary district

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

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Context

The average middle school in the Loomis Union Elementary district had 8 in 100 students chronically absent in 2025–26; the average California middle school we score had 18 in 100.

The district

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

The Loomis Union Elementary district spent $14,167 per student in the 2024–25 school year.

The typical California district spent $20,491. About 62 cents of every Loomis Union 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

  • Instruction62%
  • Instruction support11%
  • Student services8%
  • Administration7%
  • Buildings & maintenance12%

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

$21.6 million

planned in its 2026–27 plan for 17 funded actions in 3 goals. That’s 59% of its $36.4 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, 59 pages), as posted to the California School Dashboard.

Where the money goes

Three actions take 82% of the money. The plan itself puts 91% of it toward staff.

  • High-quality, standards-based instruction to all students $14.5 million
  • Expanded learning support opportunities $1.7 million
  • Facility improvements $1.5 million
  • 14 other actions
Reading, math and catch-up help

1 of the plan’s 17 funded actions names reading, math, catch-up help or English learners in its title.

Actions whose titles name English learners
  • English learners $235,637

Largest of these

  • English language development (ELD) standards based instruction$235,637
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 $1.4 million in extra services for English learners, low-income students and foster youth. For 2025–26, it planned $1.5 million and estimates it spent $1.2 million, $0.3 million (15%) less than planned (our arithmetic).

Ask: Why did estimated spending on these services come in $0.3 million under the 2025–26 plan, and where does that money go in 2026–27?

What changed

The total is $304,100 (1%) higher than in the 2025–26 plan. The biggest change in dollars is High-quality, standards-based instruction to all students, which went from $14.3 million to $14.5 million.

Largest cuts

  • Co-curricular and extra curricular activities−⁠$63,362
  • High-quality standards-based supplemental curricular supports−⁠$60,149
  • Professional development for all staff−⁠$54,504

Largest increases

  • High-quality, standards-based instruction to all students+⁠$127,330
  • Expanded learning enrichment opportunities+⁠$70,861
  • Instructional Technology+⁠$68,372
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 169%68%down 1 pt
Math, every tested grade: Proficient or Advanced in 2025–26, met or exceeded in 2024–25Goal 163%62%down 1 pt
Chronically absentCounted across all the district’s students, not averaged by schoolGoal 28 in 1008 in 100no change
Suspended at least onceGoal 21.1%1.2%up 0.1 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
  • High-quality, standards-based instruction to all students · $14,475,928
  • Expanded learning support opportunities · $1,683,897
  • Facility improvements · $1,518,334
The full plan3 goals, 15 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 ($21.6 million).

Where does the money go?

82% 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.

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 1The percentage of all students who meet or exceed standards in math and English Language Arts (ELA) will…$17.6 million82% of action budgets

“The percentage of all students who meet or exceed standards in math and English Language Arts (ELA) will maintain while targeted subgroups, Students with Disabilities, Socioeconomically Disadvantaged, and English Learners, will improve their performance in math and ELA as demonstrated through annual CAASPP data” p. 15 ↗

8 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $17.3 million (+⁠$270,428)

Largest funded actions

  1. High-quality, standards-based instruction to all students$14.5 millionaction 1.1 · p. 52 ↗
  2. Expanded learning support opportunities$1.7 millionaction 1.5 · p. 52 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $711,247 is state funding counted toward those services
  3. Instructional Technology$0.4 millionaction 1.7 · p. 52 ↗
  4. Professional development for all staff$0.3 millionaction 1.3 · p. 52 ↗
  5. High-quality standards-based supplemental curricular supports$0.3 millionaction 1.2 · p. 52 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services

3 more funded actions in this goal

  • English language development (ELD) standards based instruction · action 1.4 · p. 52 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $184,200 is state funding counted toward those services$0.2 million
  • Instructional technology supports for subgroups · action 1.8 · p. 52 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.2 million
  • Expanded learning enrichment opportunities · action 1.6 · p. 52 ↗$0.1 million

Changes from last year’s plan, same title

  1. High-quality, standards-based instruction to all students+⁠$0.1 million$14.3 million → $14.5 million · p. 52 ↗
  2. Expanded learning enrichment opportunities+⁠$70,861$36,376 → $107,237 · p. 52 ↗
  3. Instructional Technology+⁠$68,372$291,576 → $359,948 · p. 52 ↗

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

  • Expanded learning support opportunities · $1.6 million → $1.7 million · p. 52 ↗+⁠$0.1 million
  • Professional development for all staff · $374,078 → $319,574 · p. 52 ↗−⁠$54,504
  • High-quality standards-based supplemental curricular supports · $337,552 → $277,403 · p. 52 ↗−⁠$60,149
  • English language development (ELD) standards based instruction · $196,917 → $235,637 · p. 52 ↗+⁠$38,720
  • Instructional technology supports for subgroups · $136,333 → $152,034 · p. 52 ↗+⁠$15,701

How the plan measures it · 6 measures · 1 quoted

  • LUSD quarterly Williams Act reports p. 18 ↗
    Baseline
    100% complaint with Williams Act (2024)
    Target for year 3
    100% complaint with Williams Act

5 more measures in the plan’s table.

Goal 2The instructional environment will be both emotionally and physically safe for all students as measured by…$3.9 million18% of action budgets

“The instructional environment will be both emotionally and physically safe for all students as measured by suspension rates, attendance percentages, facility rating, and local assessment data” p. 26 ↗

6 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $3.9 million (+⁠$19,174)

Largest funded actions

  1. Facility improvements$1.5 millionaction 2.4 · p. 52 ↗
  2. Co-curricular and extra curricular activities$1.4 millionaction 2.5 · p. 52 ↗
  3. Social-emotional learning (SEL) for all students$0.6 millionaction 2.1 · p. 52 ↗
  4. Online safety supports$0.2 millionaction 2.3 · p. 52 ↗
  5. Social-emotional and behavioral intervention$0.2 millionaction 2.2 · p. 52 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $35,536 is state funding counted toward those services

1 more funded action in this goal

  • School safety and climate · action 2.6 · p. 53 ↗under $0.1 million

Changes from last year’s plan, same title

  1. Co-curricular and extra curricular activities−⁠$0.1 million$1.5 million → $1.4 million · p. 52 ↗
  2. Facility improvements+⁠$0.1 million$1.5 million → $1.5 million · p. 52 ↗
  3. Social-emotional learning (SEL) for all students+⁠$20,359$572,019 → $592,378 · p. 52 ↗

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

  • Online safety supports · $204,620 → $210,580 · p. 52 ↗+⁠$5,960
  • Social-emotional and behavioral intervention · $153,091 → $162,223 · p. 52 ↗+⁠$9,132
  • School safety and climate · $17,000 → $13,000 · p. 53 ↗−⁠$4,000

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. 26 ↗.

Goal 3 · Maintenance of Progress GoalParent and community members will engage in the school community as demonstrated through parent participation…$66,648under 1% of action budgets

“Parent and community members will engage in the school community as demonstrated through parent participation rates in outreach opportunities and survey feedback” p. 34 ↗

3 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $52,150 (+⁠$14,498)

Largest funded actions

  1. Educational partner outreach$64,133action 3.1 · p. 53 ↗
  2. English learner and low income family outreach$2,000action 3.3 · p. 53 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  3. Educational partner input$515action 3.2 · p. 53 ↗

Changes from last year’s plan, same title

  1. Educational partner outreach+⁠$14,473$49,660 → $64,133 · p. 53 ↗
  2. Educational partner input+⁠$25$490 → $515 · p. 53 ↗

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

  • English learner and low income family outreach · $2,000 → $2,000 · p. 53 ↗unchanged

How the plan measures it · 3 measures

None of these has an all-students line we can quote; the plan’s table lists them from p. 34 ↗.

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, 2,831 students
1. White: 75%2. Hispanic or Latino: 13%3. Two or more races: 8%4. Asian: 2%5. Filipino: <1%6. Not reported: <1%7. Black or African American: <1%8. American Indian or Alaska Native: <1%Student mix2024–25
  1. White75%
  2. Hispanic or Latino13%
  3. Two or more races8%
  4. Asian2%
  5. Filipino<1%
  6. Not reported<1%
  7. Black or African American<1%
  8. American Indian or Alaska Native<1%
  9. Pacific Islander0%
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

13%

Across California, 63% of students qualify.

2024–25 · 369 of 2,826 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?

Loomis Union Elementary 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, 67% of the district’s English learners moved up at least one level on the state’s English test (ELPAC), or stayed at the top (29 of 43 students). California: 47%. It counts students moving up the test’s levels, so a student can count here before becoming fluent.

Sources: District help (CDE) ↗ · English learner progress (CDE) ↗. State results from the 2026 California School Dashboard.

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Common questions

Which public schools in the Loomis Union Elementary district rank highest?

Elementary: 2 schools at the 91st percentile (Strong): Loomis Basin Charter and Loomis Elementary. Middle: Loomis Basin Charter, 96th 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 Loomis Union 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 Loomis Union Elementary district good?

Loomis Union Elementary’s 7 public elementary schools run from the 53rd to the 91st percentile among the 5,726 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests). By band: 6 Strong and 1 Solid. Loomis Union Elementary’s 7 public middle schools run from the 48th to the 96th percentile among the 2,529 California middle schools we score (spring 2026 tests). By band: 6 Strong 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 Loomis Union Elementary district compare with California?

The average elementary school in the Loomis Union Elementary district 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. The average middle school in the Loomis Union Elementary district had 8 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 Loomis Union Elementary district spend per student?

The Loomis Union Elementary district spent $14,167 per student in the 2024–25 school year. The typical California district spent $20,491. About 62 cents of every Loomis Union 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 Loomis Union Elementary district’s 2026–27 spending plan?

The district’s 2026–27 spending plan puts $21.6 million into 17 funded actions in 3 goals, 59% of its $36.4 million general fund budget. Its largest goal holds $17.6 million, 82% 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 Loomis Union 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.

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