School district · Placer County

Newcastle Elementary schools

Newcastle Elementary runs schools through 8th grade. Its 5 public elementary schools run from the 79th to the 97th percentile among the 5,726 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests). Middle and high school are run by another district; confirm the school for your address with the district.

Elementary · 5 schools

from 79th to 97th · among 5,726 California elementary schools we score · spring 2026 tests

  • Creekside Charter: 97th percentile, Strong
  • Rocklin Academy Gateway: 93rd percentile, Strong
  • Newcastle Charter: 88th percentile, Strong
  • Harvest Ridge Cooperative Charter: 80th percentile, Strong
  • Newcastle Elementary: 79th percentile, Strong
0Needs Support
0Developing
0Solid
5Strong

Middle · 3 schools

from 66th to 95th · among 2,529 California middle schools we score · spring 2026 tests

  • Creekside Charter: 95th percentile, Strong
  • Rocklin Academy Gateway: 91st percentile, Strong
  • Harvest Ridge Cooperative Charter: 66th percentile, Solid
0Needs Support
0Developing
1Solid
2Strong

One dot per school. Each stage is placed only among California schools at its own level. 3 of the 5 ranked schools teach two levels, so they appear in more than one picture.

  • 5 ranked schools
  • 4 of 5 are charter schools

Schools around the Newcastle Elementary district

5 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 Newcastle Elementary district score highest?

Creekside Charter is highest, at the 97th percentile.

That’s higher than 97 in 100 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests).

Highest in the Newcastle Elementary district

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

  • Creekside CharterOlympic Valley · High ceiling · Broad base · Charter school. Check how it admits students.
    97thStrongScope Score 80
  • Rocklin Academy GatewayRocklin · Broad base · Grade-to-grade gains · Charter school. Check how it admits students.
    93rdStrongScope Score 71
  • Newcastle CharterNewcastle · Broad base · Charter school. Check how it admits students.
    88thStrongScope Score 63
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Context

The average elementary school in the Newcastle Elementary district had 3 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 Newcastle Elementary district score highest?

Creekside Charter is highest, at the 95th percentile.

That’s higher than 95 in 100 California middle schools we score (spring 2026 tests).

Highest in the Newcastle Elementary district

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

Context

The average middle school in the Newcastle Elementary district had 1 in 100 students chronically absent in 2025–26; the average California middle school we score had 18 in 100.

The district

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

The Newcastle Elementary district spent $24,457 per student in the 2024–25 school year.

The typical California district spent $20,491. About 68 cents of every Newcastle 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

  • Instruction68%
  • Instruction support9%
  • Student services8%
  • Administration6%
  • 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

$2.0 million

planned in its 2026–27 plan for 23 funded actions in 3 goals. That’s 36% of its $5.4 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, 86 pages), as posted to the California School Dashboard.

Where the money goes

Three actions take 94% of the money. The plan itself puts 93% of it toward staff.

  • Highly qualified teachers in all academic classes $1.7 million
  • Math Adoption of Curriculum $100,000
  • General Education Counseling Time $48,219
  • 20 other actions
Reading, math and catch-up help

4 of the plan’s 23 funded actions name reading, math, catch-up help or English learners in their titles.

Actions whose titles name math, catch-up help or English learners
  • Math $100,000
  • Catch-up help $24,750
  • English learners $5,200

Largest of these

  • Math Adoption of Curriculum$100,000
  • Intervention Curriculum and Materials$20,750
  • 0.10 EL Teacher$5,200
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 $112,034 in extra services for English learners, low-income students and foster youth. For 2025–26, it planned $103,002 and estimates it spent $101,450, $1,552 (2%) less than planned (our arithmetic).

What changed

The total is $539,912 (38%) higher than in the 2025–26 plan. The biggest change in dollars is Highly qualified teachers in all academic classes, which went from $1.1 million to $1.7 million.

Largest cuts

  • Instructional FLEX Aides−⁠$9,676

Largest increases

  • Highly qualified teachers in all academic classes+⁠$589,577
  • General Education Counseling Time+⁠$8,611
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 168%71%up 3 pts
Math, every tested grade: Proficient or Advanced in 2025–26, met or exceeded in 2024–25Goals 1 and 261%62%up 1 pt
Chronically absentCounted across all the district’s students, not averaged by schoolGoal 37 in 1006 in 1001 fewer in 100
Suspended at least onceGoal 35.3%2.0%down 3.3 pts

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
  • Highly qualified teachers in all academic classes · $1,688,478
  • Math Adoption of Curriculum · $100,000
  • General Education Counseling Time · $48,219
The full plan3 goals, 23 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 ($2.0 million).

Where does the money go?

93% to Goal 1. Each segment is one action, sized by its planned dollars and coloured by its change since last year’s plan. Tap a segment to open its goal.

Highly qualified teachers in all academic classes · $1.7 million · +⁠$0.6 million

Highly qualified teachers in all academic classes is 86% of the plan.

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
  • small actions drawn together

Every goal, in the plan’s order

Goal 1Increase student academic growth and performance, and provide high quality instruction for all students$1.8 million93% of action budgets

8 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $1.2 million (+⁠$588,660) · p. 14 ↗

Largest funded actions

  1. Highly qualified teachers in all academic classes$1.7 millionaction 1.1 · p. 48 ↗
  2. Math Adoption of Curriculum$0.1 millionaction 1.5 · p. 48 ↗
  3. English Language Learner Master Planunder $0.1 millionaction 1.8 · p. 48 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  4. Student Chromebooks and iPadsunder $0.1 millionaction 1.3 · p. 48 ↗
  5. Differentiated professional development by PLC group or grade levelsunder $0.1 millionaction 1.2 · p. 48 ↗

3 more funded actions in this goal

  • Teacher Release Time for Cross-Observations · action 1.6 · p. 48 ↗under $0.1 million
  • Chromebooks and Hotspots · action 1.7 · p. 48 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need servicesunder $0.1 million
  • iReady Professional Development and Refresher Training · action 1.4 · p. 48 ↗under $0.1 million

Changes from last year’s plan, same title

  1. Highly qualified teachers in all academic classes+⁠$0.6 million$1.1 million → $1.7 million · p. 48 ↗
  2. English Language Learner Master Plan+⁠$1,183$11,124 → $12,307 · p. 48 ↗
  3. Differentiated professional development by PLC group or grade levels−⁠$1,100$7,600 → $6,500 · p. 48 ↗

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

  • Math Adoption of Curriculum · $100,000 → $100,000 · p. 48 ↗unchanged
  • Student Chromebooks and iPads · $9,000 → $8,000 · p. 48 ↗−⁠$1,000
  • Teacher Release Time for Cross-Observations · $1,000 → $1,000 · p. 48 ↗unchanged
  • Chromebooks and Hotspots · $1,000 → $1,000 · p. 48 ↗unchanged
  • iReady Professional Development and Refresher Training · $300 → $300 · p. 48 ↗unchanged

How the plan measures it · 7 measures

None of these has an all-students line we can quote; the plan’s table lists them from p. 14 ↗.

Goal 2Provide students with targeted and tiered intervention and a variety of enrichment opportunities$80,5584% of action budgets

8 funded actions · reworded since the 2025–26 plan · p. 23 ↗

Largest funded actions

  1. Instructional FLEX Aides$45,308action 2.8 · p. 49 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  2. Intervention Curriculum and Materials$20,750action 2.5 · p. 49 ↗
  3. 0.10 EL Teacher$5,200action 2.2 · p. 48 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  4. Extended School Day for Intervention$4,000action 2.4 · p. 49 ↗
  5. Enrichment and Extra-Curricular Stipends$3,000action 2.6 · p. 49 ↗

3 more funded actions in this goal

  • Universal Design for Learning Training · action 2.7 · p. 49 ↗$900
  • SST Supplies and Materials · action 2.9 · p. 49 ↗$700
  • GATE Materials and Tests · action 2.10 · p. 49 ↗$700

Changes from last year’s plan, same title

  1. Instructional FLEX Aides−⁠$9,676$54,984 → $45,308 · p. 49 ↗
  2. Enrichment and Extra-Curricular Stipends+⁠$800$2,200 → $3,000 · p. 49 ↗
  3. 0.10 EL Teacher+⁠$449$4,751 → $5,200 · p. 48 ↗

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

  • Intervention Curriculum and Materials · $20,750 → $20,750 · p. 49 ↗unchanged
  • Extended School Day for Intervention · $4,000 → $4,000 · p. 49 ↗unchanged
  • Universal Design for Learning Training · $900 → $900 · p. 49 ↗unchanged
  • SST Supplies and Materials · $700 → $700 · p. 49 ↗unchanged
  • GATE Materials and Tests · $700 → $700 · p. 49 ↗unchanged

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. 23 ↗.

Goal 3Provide a safe and positive learning environment and opportunities for student, teacher, parent, and…$59,1733% of action budgets

“Provide a safe and positive learning environment and opportunities for student, teacher, parent, and community engagement” p. 33 ↗

7 funded actions · reworded since the 2025–26 plan

Largest funded actions

  1. General Education Counseling Time$48,219action 3.5 · p. 49 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  2. Library Technician$7,114action 3.7 · p. 49 ↗
  3. Go Guardian Program and Training$1,800action 3.4 · p. 49 ↗
  4. PBIS Reward System$900action 3.6 · p. 49 ↗
  5. Purchase SEL Curriculum and Training$840action 3.3 · p. 49 ↗

2 more funded actions in this goal

  • Digital Citizenship Program · action 3.1 · p. 49 ↗$150
  • New Parent Event · action 3.8 · p. 49 ↗$150

Changes from last year’s plan, same title

  1. General Education Counseling Time+⁠$8,611$39,608 → $48,219 · p. 49 ↗
  2. Library Technician−⁠$586$7,700 → $7,114 · p. 49 ↗

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

  • Go Guardian Program and Training · $1,800 → $1,800 · p. 49 ↗unchanged
  • PBIS Reward System · $900 → $900 · p. 49 ↗unchanged
  • Purchase SEL Curriculum and Training · $840 → $840 · p. 49 ↗unchanged
  • Digital Citizenship Program · $150 → $150 · p. 49 ↗unchanged
  • New Parent Event · $150 → $150 · p. 49 ↗unchanged

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. 33 ↗.

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, 2,175 students
1. White: 54%2. Asian: 18%3. Hispanic or Latino: 13%4. Two or more races: 8%5. Filipino: 4%6. Black or African American: <1%7. American Indian or Alaska Native: <1%8. Not reported: <1%9. Pacific Islander: <1%Student mix2024–25
  1. White54%
  2. Asian18%
  3. Hispanic or Latino13%
  4. Two or more races8%
  5. Filipino4%
  6. Black or African American<1%
  7. American Indian or Alaska Native<1%
  8. Not reported<1%
  9. Pacific Islander<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

15%

Across California, 63% of students qualify.

2024–25 · 315 of 2,172 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?

Newcastle Elementary isn’t getting extra state help in 2026, only the standard support every district gets.

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

Which places nearby can you look at next?

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Common questions

Which public schools in the Newcastle Elementary district rank highest?

Elementary: Creekside Charter, 97th percentile (Strong). Middle: Creekside Charter, 95th 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 Newcastle 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 Newcastle Elementary district good?

Newcastle Elementary’s 5 public elementary schools run from the 79th to the 97th percentile among the 5,726 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests). By band: 5 Strong. Newcastle Elementary’s 3 public middle schools run from the 66th to the 95th percentile among the 2,529 California middle schools we score (spring 2026 tests). By band: 2 Strong and 1 Solid. 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 Newcastle Elementary district compare with California?

The average elementary school in the Newcastle Elementary district had 3 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 Newcastle Elementary district had 1 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 Newcastle Elementary district spend per student?

The Newcastle Elementary district spent $24,457 per student in the 2024–25 school year. The typical California district spent $20,491. About 68 cents of every Newcastle 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 Newcastle Elementary district’s 2026–27 spending plan?

The district’s 2026–27 spending plan puts $2.0 million into 23 funded actions in 3 goals, 36% of its $5.4 million general fund budget. Its largest goal holds $1.8 million, 93% 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 Newcastle 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.

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

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