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Menlo Park City Elementary schools

Menlo Park City Elementary runs schools through 8th grade. Its 3 public elementary schools run from the 95th to the 99th 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 · 3 schools

from 95th to 99th · among 5,726 California elementary schools we score · spring 2026 tests

  • Oak Knoll Elementary: 99th percentile, Strong
  • Laurel Elementary: 99th percentile, Strong
  • Encinal Elementary: 95th percentile, Strong
0Needs Support
0Developing
0Solid
3Strong

Middle · 1 school

at 96th · among 2,529 California middle schools we score · spring 2026 tests

  • Hillview Middle: 96th 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 the Menlo Park City Elementary district

4 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 Menlo Park City Elementary district score highest?

Oak Knoll Elementary and Laurel Elementary are highest, both 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 the Menlo Park City Elementary district

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

  • Oak Knoll ElementaryMenlo Park · High ceiling · Broad base · Grade-to-grade gains
    99thStrongScope Score 91
  • Laurel ElementaryAtherton · High ceiling · Broad base · Grade-to-grade gains
    99thStrongScope Score 88
  • Encinal ElementaryAtherton · High ceiling · Broad base · Grade-to-grade gains
    95thStrongScope Score 75
Context

The average elementary school in the Menlo Park City Elementary district had 4 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

Where does the middle school we score in the Menlo Park City Elementary district stand?

Hillview Middle is at the 96th percentile.

That’s higher than 96 in 100 of the 2,529 California middle schools we score (spring 2026 tests). It’s the only public middle school we score in Menlo Park City Elementary.

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

  • Hillview MiddleMenlo Park · High ceiling · Broad base
    96thStrongScope Score 75

The district

Where does Menlo Park City Elementary’s money go, and what does it plan?

The Menlo Park City Elementary district spent $29,255 per student in the 2024–25 school year.

The typical California district spent $20,491. About 67 cents of every Menlo Park City 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

  • Instruction67%
  • Instruction support11%
  • Student services7%
  • Administration8%
  • Buildings & maintenance7%

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

$2.2 million

planned in its 2026–27 plan for 17 funded actions in 4 goals. That’s 3% of its $77.3 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, 125 pages), as posted to the California School Dashboard.

Where the money goes

Three actions take 85% of the money. The plan itself puts 73% of it toward staff.

  • Staffing $1.4 million
  • Curriculum $322,000
  • Family Engagement $160,000
  • 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 catch-up help
  • Catch-up help $38,883

Largest of these

  • Learning Recovery Emergency Block Grant$38,883
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 $1.5 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 $1.6 million, $0.1 million (5%) more than planned (our arithmetic).

What changed

The total is $348,900 (19%) higher than in the 2025–26 plan. The biggest change in dollars is Professional Development, which went from $15,000 to $130,000.

Largest cuts

  • Family Engagement−⁠$15,000
  • Professional Development−⁠$10,000
  • Engagement−⁠$6,000

Largest increases

  • Professional Development+⁠$115,000
  • Data and Assessment+⁠$12,500
  • Professional Development+⁠$10,000

New in the 2026–27 plan

  • Learning Recovery Emergency Block Grant$38,883

Ask: What did Family Engagement pay for, and what changes now that the 2026–27 plan gives it $15,000 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 280%80%no change
Math, every tested grade: Proficient or Advanced in 2025–26, met or exceeded in 2024–25Goal 278%78%no change
Chronically absentCounted across all the district’s students, not averaged by schoolGoal 15 in 1005 in 100no change
Suspended at least onceGoal 10.6%0.7%up 0.1 pts

Goals 3 and 4 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
  • Staffing · $1,400,000
  • Curriculum · $322,000
  • Family Engagement · $160,000
The full plan4 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 ($2.2 million).

Where does the money go?

72% to Goal 3. 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.

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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 1All students, specifically focal student groups, will report an increased sense of belonging, as measured by…$49,5172% of action budgets

“All students, specifically focal student groups, will report an increased sense of belonging, as measured by two questions on the annual 3-8 gr. student Panorama survey and qualitative data collected by administrators. Metric: Quantitative data Panorama Survey "Overall, how much do you feel that you belong at your school?" & "How often do you have opportunities to share your identity and/​or culture at school" NOTE: 5 point scale with the top two being favorable. Qualitative data collection may include student focal groups, work samples, & educational partner feedback as evidence of progress. *Focal student groups: African American (AA), Pacific Islander (PI), Hispanic (H), English Language Learners (ELL), Students with Learning Differences (SWD), Students from Socio-Economically Disadvantaged Families (SED)” p. 30 ↗

5 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $74,000 (−⁠$24,483)

Largest funded actions

  1. Social & Emotional Learning$16,197action 1.3 · p. 84 ↗
  2. Professional Development$13,770action 1.7 · p. 85 ↗
  3. Special Education Inclusion$13,550action 1.4 · p. 84 ↗
  4. Engagement$5,000action 1.8 · p. 85 ↗
  5. Engagement$1,000action 1.9 · p. 85 ↗

Changes from last year’s plan, same title

  1. Special Education Inclusion+⁠$8,550$5,000 → $13,550 · p. 84 ↗
  2. Social & Emotional Learning+⁠$6,197$10,000 → $16,197 · p. 84 ↗
  3. Engagement−⁠$6,000$7,000 → $1,000 · p. 85 ↗

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

  • Professional Development · $12,000 → $13,770 · p. 85 ↗+⁠$1,770
  • Engagement · $5,000 → $5,000 · p. 85 ↗unchanged

How the plan measures it · 12 measures

None of these has an all-students line we can quote; the plan’s table lists them from p. 30 ↗.

Goal 2All students and specifically focal student groups will improve academic performance (meeting or exceeding…$574,88326% of action budgets

“All students and specifically focal student groups will improve academic performance (meeting or exceeding standards) in ELA, Math, and Science as measured by the annual state assessments Quantative data CAASPP & CAST Qualitative data collection may include student focal groups, work samples, & educational partner feedback as evidence of progress Focal student groups: African American (AA), Pacific Islander (PI), Hispanic (H), English Language Learners (ELL), Students with Learning Differences (SWD), Students from Socio-Economically Disadvantaged Families (SED)” p. 45 ↗

7 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $196,500 (+⁠$378,383)

Largest funded actions

  1. Curriculum$322,000action 2.2 · p. 85 ↗
  2. Professional Development$130,000action 2.3 · p. 85 ↗
  3. Curriculum$45,000action 2.1 · p. 85 ↗
  4. Learning Recovery Emergency Block Grant$38,883action 2.9 · p. 86 ↗
  5. Professional Development$20,000action 2.6 · p. 86 ↗

2 more funded actions in this goal

  • Data and Assessment · action 2.5 · p. 86 ↗$14,000
  • Data and Assessment · action 2.7 · p. 86 ↗$5,000

Changes from last year’s plan, same title

  1. Professional Development+⁠$115,000$15,000 → $130,000 · p. 85 ↗
  2. Data and Assessment+⁠$12,500$1,500 → $14,000 · p. 86 ↗
  3. Professional Development−⁠$10,000$30,000 → $20,000 · p. 86 ↗

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

  • Curriculum · $322,000 · p. 85 ↗not compared
  • Curriculum · $45,000 → $45,000 · p. 85 ↗unchanged
  • Learning Recovery Emergency Block Grant · $38,883 · p. 86 ↗new or renamed
  • Data and Assessment · $5,000 → $5,000 · p. 86 ↗unchanged

A reworded title counts as new.

How the plan measures it · 10 measures

None of these has an all-students line we can quote; the plan’s table lists them from p. 45 ↗.

Goal 3 · Focus GoalBring to zero the number of "long-term" English Language Learners who have been in MPCSD since Kindergarten…$1.6 million72% of action budgets

“Bring to zero the number of "long-term" English Language Learners who have been in MPCSD since Kindergarten and/​or at least 5 years as measured by annual ELPAC data and formative assessments to qualify for fluent English predesignation by their 6th concurrent year in MPCSD. Quantitative data number of LTELs redesigned to Fluent English status Qualitative data collection may include student focal groups, work samples, & educational partner feedback as evidence of progress *Focal student groups: African American (AA), Pacific Islander (PI), Hispanic (H), English Language Learners (ELL), Students with Learning Differences (SWD), Students from Socio-Economically Disadvantaged Families (SED)” p. 61 ↗

5 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $1.6 million (+⁠$5,000)

Largest funded actions

  1. Staffing$1.4 millionaction 3.5 · p. 87 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  2. Family Engagement$0.2 millionaction 3.3 · p. 87 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  3. Professional Developmentunder $0.1 millionaction 3.1 · p. 87 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  4. Professional Developmentunder $0.1 millionaction 3.6 · p. 87 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  5. Family Engagementunder $0.1 millionaction 3.4 · p. 87 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services

Changes from last year’s plan, same title

  1. Family Engagement−⁠$15,000$20,000 → $5,000 · p. 87 ↗
  2. Professional Development+⁠$10,000$5,000 → $15,000 · p. 87 ↗
  3. Family Engagement+⁠$10,000$150,000 → $160,000 · p. 87 ↗

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

  • Staffing · $1.4 million → $1.4 million · p. 87 ↗unchanged
  • Professional Development · $10,000 → $10,000 · p. 87 ↗unchanged

How the plan measures it · 5 measures

None of these has an all-students line we can quote; the plan’s table lists them from p. 61 ↗.

Goal 4All students and, specifically, focal student groups will report increased favorability regarding the overall…$00% of action budgets

“All students and, specifically, focal student groups will report increased favorability regarding the overall social and physical learning climate of their school, as measured by two questions on the annual panorama student survey. Quantitative data Panorama Survey questions "How pleasant or unpleasant is the physical space at your school?" & "How positive or negative is the feeling/​vibe at your school?" Qualitative data collection may include student focal groups, work samples, & educational partner feedback as evidence of progress Focal Student Groups: African American (AA), Pacific Islander (PI), Hispanic (H), English Language Learners (ELL), Students with Learning Differences (SWD), Students from Socio-Economically Disadvantaged Families (SED)” p. 69 ↗

No funded actions in this plan · 2025–26 plan: $10,000 (−⁠$10,000)

How the plan measures it · 4 measures

None of these has an all-students line we can quote; the plan’s table lists them from p. 69 ↗.

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, 2,685 students
1. White: 46%2. Hispanic or Latino: 21%3. Asian: 18%4. Two or more races: 12%5. Not reported: 1%6. Pacific Islander: <1%7. Black or African American: <1%8. Filipino: <1%9. American Indian or Alaska Native: <1%Student mix2024–25
  1. White46%
  2. Hispanic or Latino21%
  3. Asian18%
  4. Two or more races12%
  5. Not reported1%
  6. Pacific Islander<1%
  7. Black or African American<1%
  8. Filipino<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

11%

Across California, 63% of students qualify.

2024–25 · 305 of 2,682 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?

Menlo Park City 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, 63% of the district’s English learners moved up at least one level on the state’s English test (ELPAC), or stayed at the top (76 of 121 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 Menlo Park City Elementary district rank highest?

Elementary: 2 schools at the 99th percentile (Strong): Oak Knoll Elementary and Laurel Elementary. Middle: Hillview Middle, 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 Menlo Park City 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 Menlo Park City Elementary district good?

Menlo Park City Elementary’s 3 public elementary schools run from the 95th to the 99th percentile among the 5,726 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests). By band: 3 Strong. Menlo Park City Elementary has one public middle school we score, Hillview Middle, at the 96th percentile among the 2,529 California middle schools we score (spring 2026 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 the Menlo Park City Elementary district compare with California?

The average elementary school in the Menlo Park City Elementary district had 4 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 the Menlo Park City Elementary district spend per student?

The Menlo Park City Elementary district spent $29,255 per student in the 2024–25 school year. The typical California district spent $20,491. About 67 cents of every Menlo Park City 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 Menlo Park City Elementary district’s 2026–27 spending plan?

The district’s 2026–27 spending plan puts $2.2 million into 17 funded actions in 4 goals, 3% of its $77.3 million general fund budget. Its largest goal holds $1.6 million, 72% 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 Menlo Park City 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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