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Los Alamitos Unified schools

Los Alamitos Unified’s 6 public elementary schools all sit between the 75th and the 99th percentile among the 5,726 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests).

Elementary · 6 schools

from 75th to 99th · among 5,726 California elementary schools we score · spring 2026 tests

  • Richard Henry Lee Elementary: 99th percentile, Strong
  • Jack L. Weaver Elementary: 98th percentile, Strong
  • Rossmoor Elementary: 94th percentile, Strong
  • Francis Hopkinson Elementary: 92nd percentile, Strong
  • J. H. McGaugh Elementary: 88th percentile, Strong
  • Los Alamitos Elementary: 75th percentile, Strong
0Needs Support
0Developing
0Solid
6Strong

One dot per school.

Middle and high school pictures

Middle · 2 schools

from 86th to 93rd · among 2,529 California middle schools we score · spring 2026 tests

  • Oak Middle: 93rd percentile, Strong
  • Sharon Christa McAuliffe Middle: 86th percentile, Strong
0Needs Support
0Developing
0Solid
2Strong

High · 1 school

at 81st · among 1,498 California high schools we score · spring 2025 tests

  • Los Alamitos High: 81st percentile, Strong
0Needs Support
0Developing
0Solid
1Strong

One dot per school. Each stage is placed only among California schools at its own level.

Schools around Los Alamitos Unified

9 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 Los Alamitos Unified score highest?

Richard Henry Lee Elementary is highest, at the 99th percentile.

That’s higher than 99 in 100 of the 5,726 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests).

Highest in Los Alamitos Unified

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

Show the other 3 elementary schools
Context

The average elementary school in Los Alamitos Unified had 5 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 Los Alamitos Unified score highest?

Oak Middle is highest, at the 93rd percentile.

That’s higher than 93 in 100 of the 2,529 California middle schools we score (spring 2026 tests).

Highest in Los Alamitos Unified

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

High schools

Where does the high school we score in Los Alamitos Unified stand?

Los Alamitos High is at the 81st percentile.

That’s higher than 81 in 100 of the 1,498 California high schools we score (spring 2025 tests). It’s the only public high school we score in Los Alamitos Unified.

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

The district

Where does Los Alamitos Unified’s money go, and what does it plan?

Los Alamitos Unified spent $16,527 per student in the 2024–25 school year.

The typical California district spent $20,491. About 67 cents of every Los Alamitos 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

  • Instruction67%
  • Instruction support9%
  • Student services8%
  • Administration7%
  • 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

$4.9 million

planned in its 2026–27 plan for 22 funded actions in 3 goals. That’s 3% of its $144.8 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, 121 pages), as posted to the California School Dashboard.

Where the money goes

Three actions take 58% of the money. The plan itself puts 82% of it toward staff.

  • Student Mental Health $1.1 million
  • Academic Interventions $921,596
  • Co-Teaching Model $882,216
  • 19 other actions
Reading, math and catch-up help

5 of the plan’s 22 funded actions name reading, math, catch-up help or English learners in their titles.

Actions whose titles name reading, math, catch-up help or English learners
  • Reading $197,141
  • Math $220,309
  • Catch-up help $921,596
  • English learners $65,142

Largest of these

  • Academic Interventions$921,596
  • Math Support$220,309
  • English Language Arts (ELA) Support$197,141
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 $4.1 million in extra services for English learners, low-income students and foster youth. For 2025–26, it planned $4.6 million and estimates it spent $4.8 million, $0.2 million (4%) more than planned (our arithmetic).

What changed

The total is $798,858 (14%) lower than in the 2025–26 plan. The biggest change in dollars is District Benchmarks & Collaboration, which went from $325,000 to $20,000.

Largest cuts

  • District Benchmarks & Collaboration−⁠$305,000
  • Academic Interventions−⁠$271,354
  • Student Social-Emotional Well-Being−⁠$220,000

Largest increases

  • Professional Development+⁠$136,995
  • Career Technical Education (CTE) & STEAM+⁠$75,125
  • Transportation+⁠$57,431

Ask: What did District Benchmarks & Collaboration pay for, and what changes now that the 2026–27 plan gives it $305,000 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
Chronically absentCounted across all the district’s students, not averaged by schoolGoal 3 · Exemplary Connections10 in 1007 in 1003 fewer in 100
Suspended at least onceGoal 3 · Exemplary Connections1.6%1.3%down 0.3 pts

Goals 1 and 2 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
  • Student Mental Health · $1,052,540
  • Academic Interventions · $921,596
  • Co-Teaching Model · $882,216
The full plan3 goals, 37 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 ($4.9 million).

Where does the money go?

41% to Goal 1, Exemplary Teaching and 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
G3

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 1Exemplary Teaching and Learning$2.0 million41% of action budgets

8 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $2.2 million (−⁠$253,981) · p. 12 ↗

Largest funded actions

  1. Academic Interventions$921,596action 1.4 · p. 81 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $549,782 is state funding counted toward those services
  2. Educational Technology$343,962action 1.3 · p. 81 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  3. Professional Development$273,260action 1.1 · p. 81 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $8,200 is state funding counted toward those services
  4. Math Support$220,309action 1.6 · p. 81 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  5. English Language Arts (ELA) Support$197,141action 1.5 · p. 81 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services

3 more funded actions in this goal

  • Instructional Support Services · action 1.7 · p. 81 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$17,000
  • Instructional Materials · action 1.2 · p. 81 ↗$8,904
  • Enhanced Supports for Students · action 1.8 · p. 81 ↗$3,000

Changes from last year’s plan, same title

  1. Academic Interventions−⁠$0.3 million$1.2 million → $0.9 million · p. 81 ↗
  2. Professional Development+⁠$136,995$136,265 → $273,260 · p. 81 ↗
  3. Instructional Materials−⁠$55,296$64,200 → $8,904 · p. 81 ↗

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

  • Educational Technology · $350,668 → $343,962 · p. 81 ↗−⁠$6,706
  • Math Support · $245,335 → $220,309 · p. 81 ↗−⁠$25,026
  • English Language Arts (ELA) Support · $233,535 → $197,141 · p. 81 ↗−⁠$36,394
  • Instructional Support Services · $10,200 → $17,000 · p. 81 ↗+⁠$6,800
  • Enhanced Supports for Students · $6,000 → $3,000 · p. 81 ↗−⁠$3,000

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. 12 ↗.

Goal 2Exemplary Student Outcomes$1.3 million27% of action budgets

7 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $1.7 million (−⁠$359,821) · p. 23 ↗

Largest funded actions

  1. Co-Teaching Model$882,216action 2.4 · p. 82 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  2. Career Technical Education (CTE) & STEAM$300,636action 2.5 · p. 82 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  3. English Learner Supports$59,947action 2.6 · p. 82 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  4. Increase A-G Completion & College Readiness$50,000action 2.2 · p. 81 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  5. District Benchmarks & Collaboration$20,000action 2.1 · p. 81 ↗

2 more funded actions in this goal

  • Increase AP Access & Dual Enrollment · action 2.3 · p. 82 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$10,000
  • Long Term English Learner (LTEL) Supports · action 2.7 · p. 82 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$5,195

Changes from last year’s plan, same title

  1. District Benchmarks & Collaboration−⁠$305,000$325,000 → $20,000 · p. 81 ↗
  2. Co-Teaching Model−⁠$0.1 million$1.0 million → $0.9 million · p. 82 ↗
  3. Career Technical Education (CTE) & STEAM+⁠$75,125$225,511 → $300,636 · p. 82 ↗

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

  • English Learner Supports · $50,305 → $59,947 · p. 82 ↗+⁠$9,642
  • Increase A-G Completion & College Readiness · $50,000 → $50,000 · p. 81 ↗unchanged
  • Increase AP Access & Dual Enrollment · $17,253 → $10,000 · p. 82 ↗−⁠$7,253
  • Long Term English Learner (LTEL) Supports · $15,000 → $5,195 · p. 82 ↗−⁠$9,805

How the plan measures it · 17 measures

None of these has an all-students line we can quote; the plan’s table lists them from p. 23 ↗.

Goal 3Exemplary Connections$1.6 million32% of action budgets

7 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $1.8 million (−⁠$185,056) · p. 40 ↗

Largest funded actions

  1. Student Mental Health$1.1 millionaction 3.5 · p. 83 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  2. Transportation$0.3 millionaction 3.7 · p. 83 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  3. Student Engagement$0.1 millionaction 3.1 · p. 82 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  4. Student Social-Emotional Well-Being$0.1 millionaction 3.6 · p. 83 ↗
  5. Student Safetyunder $0.1 millionaction 3.3 · p. 82 ↗

2 more funded actions in this goal

  • Healthy and Drug Free Learning Environment · action 3.4 · p. 83 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need servicesunder $0.1 million
  • Parent Engagement · action 3.2 · p. 82 ↗under $0.1 million

Changes from last year’s plan, same title

  1. Student Social-Emotional Well-Being−⁠$220,000$323,750 → $103,750 · p. 83 ↗
  2. Transportation+⁠$57,431$218,925 → $276,356 · p. 83 ↗
  3. Student Mental Health−⁠$32,688$1.1 million → $1.1 million · p. 83 ↗

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

  • Student Engagement · $136,348 → $140,549 · p. 82 ↗+⁠$4,201
  • Student Safety · $3,000 → $10,000 · p. 82 ↗+⁠$7,000
  • Healthy and Drug Free Learning Environment · $3,000 → $3,000 · p. 83 ↗unchanged
  • Parent Engagement · $1,000 → $1,000 · p. 82 ↗unchanged

How the plan measures it · 14 measures

None of these has an all-students line we can quote; the plan’s table lists them from p. 40 ↗.

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, 8,740 students
1. White: 37%2. Hispanic or Latino: 30%3. Asian: 14%4. Two or more races: 11%5. Filipino: 3%6. Black or African American: 2%7. Not reported: 1%8. Pacific Islander: <1%9. American Indian or Alaska Native: <1%Student mix2024–25
  1. White37%
  2. Hispanic or Latino30%
  3. Asian14%
  4. Two or more races11%
  5. Filipino3%
  6. Black or African American2%
  7. Not reported1%
  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

18%

Across California, 63% of students qualify.

2024–25 · 1,532 of 8,702 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?

Los Alamitos Unified 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, 57% of the district’s English learners moved up at least one level on the state’s English test (ELPAC), or stayed at the top (59 of 103 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 Los Alamitos Unified rank highest?

Elementary: Richard Henry Lee Elementary, 99th percentile (Strong). Middle: Oak Middle, 93rd percentile (Strong). High: Los Alamitos High, 81st 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 Los Alamitos 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.
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Are the public schools in Los Alamitos Unified good?

Los Alamitos Unified’s 6 public elementary schools run from the 75th to the 99th percentile among the 5,726 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests). By band: 6 Strong. Los Alamitos Unified’s 2 public middle schools run from the 86th to the 93rd percentile among the 2,529 California middle schools we score (spring 2026 tests). By band: 2 Strong. Los Alamitos Unified has one public high school we score, Los Alamitos High, at the 81st 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 Los Alamitos Unified compare with California?

The average elementary school in Los Alamitos Unified had 5 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 Los Alamitos Unified spend per student?

Los Alamitos Unified spent $16,527 per student in the 2024–25 school year. The typical California district spent $20,491. About 67 cents of every Los Alamitos 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 Los Alamitos Unified’s 2026–27 spending plan?

The district’s 2026–27 spending plan puts $4.9 million into 22 funded actions in 3 goals, 3% of its $144.8 million general fund budget. Its largest goal holds $2.0 million, 41% 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 Los Alamitos 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.

View CDE data ↗ (opens in a new tab)How Scope Scores work →

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