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Oceanside Unified schools

Oceanside Unified’s 15 public elementary schools run from the 31st to the 84th percentile among the 5,726 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests).

Elementary · 15 schools

from 31st to 84th · among 5,726 California elementary schools we score · spring 2026 tests

  • Coastal Academy Charter: 84th percentile, Strong
  • Ivey Ranch Elementary: 77th percentile, Strong
  • Santa Margarita Elementary: 70th percentile, Solid
  • Del Rio Elementary: 69th percentile, Solid
  • Christa McAuliffe Elementary: 66th percentile, Solid
  • Libby Elementary: 65th percentile, Solid
  • Palmquist Elementary: 64th percentile, Solid
  • Louise Foussat Elementary: 49th percentile, Developing
  • South Oceanside Elementary: 49th percentile, Developing
  • Mission Elementary: 43rd percentile, Developing
  • Laurel Elementary: 43rd percentile, Developing
  • North Terrace Elementary: 43rd percentile, Developing
  • Nichols Elementary: 38th percentile, Developing
  • Stuart Mesa Elementary: 35th percentile, Developing
  • Pablo Tac School of the Arts: 31st percentile, Developing
0Needs Support
8Developing
5Solid
2Strong

One dot per school.

Middle and high school pictures

Middle · 9 schools

from 21st to 83rd · among 2,529 California middle schools we score · spring 2026 tests

  • Coastal Academy Charter: 83rd percentile, Strong
  • North Terrace Elementary: 69th percentile, Solid
  • Santa Margarita Elementary: 67th percentile, Solid
  • Martin Luther King Jr. Middle: 49th percentile, Developing
  • Stuart Mesa Elementary: 48th percentile, Developing
  • Cesar Chavez Middle: 44th percentile, Developing
  • Lincoln Middle: 43rd percentile, Developing
  • Jefferson Middle: 31st percentile, Developing
  • Surfside Academy: 21st percentile, Needs Support
1Needs Support
5Developing
2Solid
1Strong

High · 4 schools

from 12th to 57th · among 1,498 California high schools we score · spring 2025 tests

  • Coastal Academy Charter: 57th percentile, Solid
  • El Camino High: 48th percentile, Developing
  • Oceanside High: 25th percentile, Developing
  • Surfside Academy: 12th percentile, Needs Support
1Needs Support
2Developing
1Solid
0Strong

One dot per school. Each stage is placed only among California schools at its own level. 5 of the 22 ranked schools teach more than one level, 1 of them all three, so they appear in more than one picture.

  • 22 ranked schools
  • 2 schools not ranked statewide

Schools around Oceanside Unified

24 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 Oceanside Unified score highest?

Coastal Academy Charter is highest, at the 84th percentile.

That’s higher than 84 in 100 of the 5,726 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests).

Highest in Oceanside Unified

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

Show the other 12 elementary schools
Context

The average elementary school in Oceanside Unified had 19 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 Oceanside Unified score highest?

Coastal Academy Charter is highest, at the 83rd percentile.

That’s higher than 83 in 100 of the 2,529 California middle schools we score (spring 2026 tests).

Highest in Oceanside Unified

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

Show the other 6 middle schools
Context

The average middle school in Oceanside Unified had 21 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 Oceanside Unified score highest?

Coastal Academy Charter is highest, at the 57th percentile.

That’s higher than 57 in 100 of the 1,498 California high schools we score (spring 2025 tests).

Highest in Oceanside Unified

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

Show the other 1 high school
Context

The average high school in Oceanside Unified had 23 in 100 students chronically absent in 2025–26; the average California high school we score had 22 in 100.

2 high schools not ranked statewide

Alternative schools and continuation schools enroll students differently from a regular school, so each is compared only with schools of its kind.

The district

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

Oceanside Unified spent $20,901 per student in the 2024–25 school year.

That’s close to the typical California district, which spent $20,491. About 60 cents of every Oceanside 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

  • Instruction60%
  • Instruction support12%
  • Student services10%
  • Administration7%
  • Buildings & maintenance11%

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

$43.1 million

planned in its 2026–27 plan for 15 funded actions in 4 goals. That’s 14% of its $310.6 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, 119 pages), as posted to the California School Dashboard.

Where the money goes

Three actions take 73% of the money. The plan itself puts 92% of it toward staff.

  • Academic Interventions and Enrichment Supports $24.4 million
  • Academic Supports for English Learners, specifically LTEL $4.3 million
  • Professional Learning Supports to build capacity $2.9 million
  • 12 other actions
Reading, math and catch-up help

5 of the plan’s 15 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 $0.5 million
  • Catch-up help $28.9 million
  • English learners $4.4 million

An action naming two of these appears under both.

Largest of these

  • Academic Interventions and Enrichment Supports$24.4 million
  • Academic Supports for English Learners, specifically LTEL$4.3 million
  • Decrease CA (All,HIS) at Surfside Academy Increase Math scores (All, SED, WH)$450,869
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 $40.3 million in extra services for English learners, low-income students and foster youth. For 2025–26, it planned $41.2 million and estimates it spent $41.3 million, within 1% of the plan.

What changed

The total is $971,584 (2%) higher than in the 2025–26 plan. The biggest change in dollars is Behavioral Supports, which went from $4.3 million to $2.2 million.

Largest cuts

  • Behavioral Supports−⁠$2.1 million
  • Academic Interventions and Enrichment Supports−⁠$1.6 million
  • Targeted Academic Supports to support graduation rates and college and career readiness−⁠$470,947

Largest increases

  • Family-Caregiver Engagement Supports+⁠$708,988
  • Physical health and nutrition+⁠$633,846
  • Decrease CA (All,HIS) at Surfside Academy Increase Math scores (All, SED, WH)+⁠$134,376

New in the 2026–27 plan

  • Mental Health and Social-Emotional Supports (LREBG funded)$2.9 million
  • Implementation of Standards-Based Instruction in all core subject areas, TK-12 and ensuring all teachers are appropriately credentialed for placement/ assignment (LREGB Funded)$1.7 million

Ask: What did Behavioral Supports pay for, and what changes now that the 2026–27 plan gives it $2.1 million 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 142%44%up 2 pts
Math, every tested grade: Proficient or Advanced in 2025–26, met or exceeded in 2024–25Goal 132%33%up 1 pt
Suspended at least onceGoal 23.4%3.2%down 0.2 pts

Goal 4 tracks named schools and Goal 3 tracks other measures, so they aren’t shown here.

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
  • Academic Interventions and Enrichment Supports · $24,402,182
  • Academic Supports for English Learners, specifically LTEL · $4,310,095
  • Professional Learning Supports to build capacity · $2,925,358
The full plan4 goals, 16 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 ($43.1 million).

Where does the money go?

78% 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
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 1Ensure students demonstrate academic growth and proficiencies so they leave TK-12 ready for college/​career$33.5 million78% of action budgets

5 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $33.7 million (−⁠$211,119) · p. 23 ↗

Largest funded actions

  1. Academic Interventions and Enrichment Supports$24.4 millionaction 1.3 · p. 79 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  2. Academic Supports for English Learners, specifically LTEL$4.3 millionaction 1.4 · p. 79 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  3. Professional Learning Supports to build capacity$2.9 millionaction 1.2 · p. 79 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  4. Implementation of Standards-Based Instruction in all core subject areas, TK-12 and ensuring all teachers are appropriately credentialed for placement/ assignment (LREGB Funded)$1.7 millionaction 1.1 · p. 79 ↗
  5. Additional Technology$0.1 millionaction 1.5 · p. 79 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services

Changes from last year’s plan, same title

  1. Academic Interventions and Enrichment Supports−⁠$1.6 million$26.0 million → $24.4 million · p. 79 ↗
  2. Academic Supports for English Learners, specifically LTEL−⁠$0.3 million$4.6 million → $4.3 million · p. 79 ↗
  3. Professional Learning Supports to build capacity−⁠$0.2 million$3.1 million → $2.9 million · p. 79 ↗

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

  • Implementation of Standards-Based Instruction in all core subject areas, TK-12 and ensuring all teachers are appropriately credentialed for placement/ assignment (LREGB Funded) · $1.7 million · p. 79 ↗new or renamed
  • Additional Technology · $38,061 → $114,123 · p. 79 ↗+⁠$76,062

A reworded title counts as new.

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. 23 ↗.

Goal 2Create safe and positive learning environments$6.3 million15% of action budgets

4 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $5.3 million (+⁠$1.0 million) · p. 39 ↗

Largest funded actions

  1. Mental Health and Social-Emotional Supports (LREBG funded)$2.9 millionaction 2.1 · p. 80 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $2.5 million is state funding counted toward those services
  2. Behavioral Supports$2.2 millionaction 2.2 · p. 80 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  3. Physical health and nutrition$1.1 millionaction 2.4 · p. 80 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  4. Attendance Monitoring and Supports$0.1 millionaction 2.3 · p. 80 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services

Changes from last year’s plan, same title

  1. Behavioral Supports−⁠$2.1 million$4.3 million → $2.2 million · p. 80 ↗
  2. Physical health and nutrition+⁠$0.6 million$0.5 million → $1.1 million · p. 80 ↗
  3. Attendance Monitoring and Supports+⁠$44,734$79,786 → $124,520 · p. 80 ↗

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

  • Mental Health and Social-Emotional Supports (LREBG funded) · $2.9 million · p. 80 ↗new or renamed

A reworded title counts as new.

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. 39 ↗.

Goal 3Meaningful family-caregiver and community engagement$2.6 million6% of action budgets

4 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $2.2 million (+⁠$485,081) · p. 50 ↗

Largest funded actions

  1. Community School Services$1.5 millionaction 3.4 · p. 81 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  2. Family-Caregiver Engagement Supports$0.9 millionaction 3.1 · p. 80 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  3. Bilingual Family-Caregiver Supports$0.1 millionaction 3.2 · p. 80 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  4. District-School-Home Communication$0.1 millionaction 3.3 · p. 81 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services

Changes from last year’s plan, same title

  1. Family-Caregiver Engagement Supports+⁠$708,988$228,054 → $937,042 · p. 80 ↗
  2. Community School Services−⁠$0.1 million$1.6 million → $1.5 million · p. 81 ↗
  3. Bilingual Family-Caregiver Supports−⁠$106,070$208,533 → $102,463 · p. 80 ↗

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

  • District-School-Home Communication · $80,283 → $100,606 · p. 81 ↗+⁠$20,323

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. 50 ↗.

Goal 4 · Equity Multiplier Focus GoalProvide Targeted support for Equity Multiplier Schools, SHS and SEA, in areas of Graduation Rates and College…$646,4161% of action budgets

“Provide Targeted support for Equity Multiplier Schools, SHS and SEA, in areas of Graduation Rates and College and Career Readiness” p. 59 ↗

2 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $982,988 (−⁠$336,572)

Largest funded actions

  1. Decrease CA (All,HIS) at Surfside Academy Increase Math scores (All, SED, WH)$450,869action 4.2 · p. 81 ↗
  2. Targeted Academic Supports to support graduation rates and college and career readiness$195,547action 4.1 · p. 81 ↗

Changes from last year’s plan, same title

  1. Targeted Academic Supports to support graduation rates and college and career readiness−⁠$470,947$666,494 → $195,547 · p. 81 ↗
  2. Decrease CA (All,HIS) at Surfside Academy Increase Math scores (All, SED, WH)+⁠$134,376$316,494 → $450,869 · p. 81 ↗

How the plan measures it · 2 measures

None of these has an all-students line we can quote; the plan’s table lists them from p. 59 ↗.

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, 17,467 students
1. Hispanic or Latino: 57%2. White: 25%3. Two or more races: 8%4. Black or African American: 4%5. Filipino: 2%6. Asian: 2%7. Pacific Islander: 1%8. Not reported: 1%9. American Indian or Alaska Native: <1%Student mix2024–25
  1. Hispanic or Latino57%
  2. White25%
  3. Two or more races8%
  4. Black or African American4%
  5. Filipino2%
  6. Asian2%
  7. Pacific Islander1%
  8. Not reported1%
  9. American Indian or Alaska Native<1%
Shares use the district's own October enrollment counts from the CDE, including its charter schools.

Free or reduced-price meals

67%

Across California, 63% of students qualify.

2024–25 · 11,570 of 17,388 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 Oceanside Unified 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, 51% of the district’s English learners moved up at least one level on the state’s English test (ELPAC), or stayed at the top (651 of 1,267 students). California: 47%. It counts students moving up the test’s levels, so a student can count here before becoming fluent.

5 schools getting state support, 2025–26

1 in most intensive support · 4 in 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 Oceanside Unified rank highest?

Elementary: Coastal Academy Charter, 84th percentile (Strong). Middle: Coastal Academy Charter, 83rd percentile (Strong). High: Coastal Academy Charter, 57th percentile (Solid). 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 Oceanside 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 Oceanside Unified good?

Oceanside Unified’s 15 public elementary schools run from the 31st to the 84th percentile among the 5,726 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests). By band: 2 Strong, 5 Solid and 8 Developing. Oceanside Unified’s 9 public middle schools run from the 21st to the 83rd percentile among the 2,529 California middle schools we score (spring 2026 tests). By band: 1 Strong, 2 Solid, 5 Developing and 1 Needs Support. Oceanside Unified’s 4 public high schools run from the 12th to the 57th percentile among the 1,498 California high schools we score (spring 2025 tests). By band: 1 Solid, 2 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 Oceanside Unified compare with California?

The average elementary school in Oceanside Unified had 19 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 Oceanside Unified had 21 in 100 students chronically absent in 2025–26; the average California middle school we score had 18 in 100. The average high school in Oceanside Unified had 23 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 Oceanside Unified spend per student?

Oceanside Unified spent $20,901 per student in the 2024–25 school year. That’s close to the typical California district, which spent $20,491. About 60 cents of every Oceanside 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 Oceanside Unified’s 2026–27 spending plan?

The district’s 2026–27 spending plan puts $43.1 million into 15 funded actions in 4 goals, 14% of its $310.6 million general fund budget. Its largest goal holds $33.5 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 Oceanside 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 →

Download these schools (CSV)Free to use under CC BY 4.0 with attribution.