Redondo Beach Unified’s 8 public elementary schools all sit between the 83rd and the 97th percentile among the 5,726 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests).
Elementary · 8 schools
from 83rd to 97th · among 5,726 California elementary schools we score · spring 2026 tests
Alta Vista Elementary: 97th percentile, Strong
Birney Elementary: 97th percentile, Strong
Tulita Elementary: 95th percentile, Strong
Lincoln Elementary: 90th percentile, Strong
Jefferson Elementary: 88th percentile, Strong
Madison Elementary: 88th percentile, Strong
Beryl Heights Elementary: 87th percentile, Strong
Washington Elementary: 83rd percentile, Strong
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One dot per school.
Middle and high school pictures
Middle · 2 schools
from 74th to 93rd · among 2,529 California middle schools we score · spring 2026 tests
Adams Middle: 93rd percentile, Strong
Parras (Nick G.) Middle: 74th percentile, Solid
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0Developing
1Solid
1Strong
High · 1 school
at 89th · among 1,498 California high schools we score · spring 2025 tests
Redondo Union High: 89th percentile, Strong
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One dot per school. Each stage is placed only among California schools at its own level.
The average elementary school in Redondo Beach Unified had 6 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 Redondo Beach Unified score highest?
Adams 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 Redondo Beach Unified
Each percentile compares a school with California schools at its own level. What patterns mean
Where does the high school we score in Redondo Beach Unified stand?
Redondo Union High is at the 89th percentile.
That’s higher than 89 in 100 of the 1,498 California high schools we score (spring 2025 tests). It’s the only public high school we score in Redondo Beach Unified.
Each percentile compares a school with California schools at its own level.
Continuation schools and court and community schools enroll students differently from a regular school, so each is compared only with its own kind or not ranked.
Redondo Beach Learning AcademyCommunity day school: students are placed here by probation, district or voluntary referral, including after an expulsion, so we don’t rank it
The district
Where does Redondo Beach Unified’s money go, and what does it plan?
Redondo Beach Unified spent $15,012 per student in the 2024–25 school year.
The typical California district spent $20,491. About 67 cents of every Redondo Beach 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 support8%
Student services8%
Administration9%
Buildings & maintenance8%
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
$112.0 million
planned in its 2026–27 plan for 44 funded actions in 4 goals. That’s 79% of its $141.0 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, 142 pages), as posted to the California School Dashboard.
Where the money goes
Three actions take 81% of the money. The plan itself puts 80% of it toward staff.
Highly Qualified Teaching Staff $55.1 million
Special Education Programming $24.3 million
School Facilities and Maintenance & Operations $11.8 million
41 other actions
Reading, math and catch-up help
6 of the plan’s 44 funded actions name reading, math, catch-up help or English learners in their titles.
Actions whose titles name catch-up help or English learners
Catch-up help $556,100
English learners $612,438
An action naming two of these appears under both.
Largest of these
Supplemental English Language Development Curriculum and Teacher Professional Development to Support EL and LTEL Progress and Language Acquisition$432,438
District-level MTSS Coordinator$237,000
High School Credit Recovery$139,100
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 $4.2 million in extra services for English learners, low-income students and foster youth. For 2025–26, it planned $4.1 million and estimates it spent $4.1 million, within 1% of the plan.
$4.1 million spent (estimated)$4.1 million planned
What changed
The total is $9.4 million (9%) higher than in the 2025–26 plan. The biggest change in dollars is Conferences and External Professional Development Opportunities, which went from $10,000 to $4.2 million.
Largest cuts
Materials and Supplies−$1.3 million
Supplemental School-based Counseling Services for Unduplicated Pupils−$349,409
Largest increases
Conferences and External Professional Development Opportunities+$4.2 million
Highly Qualified Teaching Staff+$1.8 million
School-based Counseling+$1.3 million
New in the 2026–27 plan
Professional development for CTE teachers on industry trends, instructional strategies, and integrated academics$1.1 million
Upgrade CTE labs and equipment to meet current industry and postsecondary standards, ensuring students are prepared for career and college pathways$1.0 million
Develop a Comprehensive Work-Based Learning Continuum$532,698
Ask: What did Materials and Supplies pay for, and what changes now that the 2026–27 plan gives it $1.3 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
Measure
2024–25
2025–26
Change
English, every tested grade: Proficient or Advanced in 2025–26, met or exceeded in 2024–25Goal 1
71%
73%
up 2 pts
Math, every tested grade: Proficient or Advanced in 2025–26, met or exceeded in 2024–25Goals 1 and 3
68%
69%
up 1 pt
Chronically absentCounted across all the district’s students, not averaged by schoolGoal 2
9 in 100
10 in 100
1 more in 100
Suspended at least onceGoals 2 and 3
1.2%
1.2%
no change
Goal 4 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
Highly Qualified Teaching Staff · $55,089,039
Special Education Programming · $24,312,685
School Facilities and Maintenance & Operations · $11,764,804
The full plan4 goals, 50 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 ($112.0 million).
Where does the money go?
75% 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.
not compared: unconfirmed, or repeated across goals
small actions drawn together
Every goal, in the plan’s order
Goal 1Increase student achievement to ensure college and career readiness through access to diverse course…$83.5 million75% of action budgets
“Increase student achievement to ensure college and career readiness through access to diverse course offerings, and the implementation of research-based instructional strategies and professional development as measured by state and local metrics” p. 13 ↗
24 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $75.7 million (+$7.8 million)
Largest funded actions
Highly Qualified Teaching Staff$55.1 millionaction 1.1 · p. 97 ↗
School Facilities and Maintenance & Operations$11.8 millionaction 1.3 · p. 97 ↗
Conferences and External Professional Development Opportunities$4.2 millionaction 1.18 · p. 98 ↗
School-based Counseling$3.5 millionaction 1.4 · p. 97 ↗
Materials and Supplies$2.7 millionaction 1.2 · p. 97 ↗
19 more funded actions in this goal
Professional development for CTE teachers on industry trends, instructional strategies, and integrated academics · action 1.23 · p. 99 ↗$1.1 million
Replenish Textbooks, Instructional Materials, and Digital Licenses · action 1.15 · p. 98 ↗$1.0 million
Upgrade CTE labs and equipment to meet current industry and postsecondary standards, ensuring students are prepared for career and college pathways · action 1.22 · p. 99 ↗$1.0 million
Supplemental English Language Development Curriculum and Teacher Professional Development to Support EL and LTEL Progress and Language Acquisition · action 1.11 · p. 98 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.4 million
Teacher Professional Development Day · action 1.14 · p. 98 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.4 million
Supplemental School-based Counseling Services for Unduplicated Pupils · action 1.7 · p. 97 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.3 million
Middle School Teachers on Special Assignments (TOSA) · action 1.8 · p. 97 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.3 million
District-level Teachers on Special Assignment (TOSA) · action 1.16 · p. 98 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.3 million
District-level MTSS Coordinator · action 1.9 · p. 98 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.2 million
Implement District-wide Benchmark · action 1.12 · p. 98 ↗$0.2 million
Supplemental Academic and Social-Emotional Counseling · action 1.17 · p. 98 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.2 million
High School Teacher on Special Assignment (TOSA) · action 1.19 · p. 98 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.2 million
School Site Instructional Leadership Team Coaching Support · action 1.20 · p. 99 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.2 million
High School Credit Recovery · action 1.10 · p. 98 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.1 million
Supplemental Academic Support for Secondary English Learners · action 1.5 · p. 97 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.1 million
Expand dual enrollment and postsecondary options · action 1.24 · p. 99 ↗$0.1 million
English Learner Site Specialists · action 1.6 · p. 97 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need servicesunder $0.1 million
Tutoring Support for Unduplicated Students · action 1.13 · p. 98 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need servicesunder $0.1 million
Professional Development Science Instruction · action 1.21 · p. 99 ↗under $0.1 million
Changes from last year’s plan, same title
Conferences and External Professional Development Opportunities+$4.2 millionunder $0.1 million → $4.2 million · p. 98 ↗
Highly Qualified Teaching Staff+$1.8 million$53.3 million → $55.1 million · p. 97 ↗
School-based Counseling+$1.3 million$2.1 million → $3.5 million · p. 97 ↗
Every other line in this goal, against last year’s plan
School Facilities and Maintenance & Operations · $11.7 million → $11.8 million · p. 97 ↗+$0.1 million
Materials and Supplies · $4.0 million → $2.7 million · p. 97 ↗−$1.3 million
Professional development for CTE teachers on industry trends, instructional strategies, and integrated academics · $1.1 million · p. 99 ↗new or renamed
Replenish Textbooks, Instructional Materials, and Digital Licenses · $0.3 million → $1.0 million · p. 98 ↗+$0.7 million
Upgrade CTE labs and equipment to meet current industry and postsecondary standards, ensuring students are prepared for career and college pathways · $1.0 million · p. 99 ↗new or renamed
Supplemental English Language Development Curriculum and Teacher Professional Development to Support EL and LTEL Progress and Language Acquisition · $432,438 · p. 98 ↗new or renamed
Teacher Professional Development Day · $563,000 → $350,000 · p. 98 ↗−$213,000
Supplemental School-based Counseling Services for Unduplicated Pupils · $690,852 → $341,443 · p. 97 ↗−$349,409
Middle School Teachers on Special Assignments (TOSA) · $280,000 → $300,000 · p. 97 ↗+$20,000
District-level Teachers on Special Assignment (TOSA) · $280,000 · p. 98 ↗new or renamed
Supplemental Academic and Social-Emotional Counseling · $180,000 → $180,000 · p. 98 ↗unchanged
High School Teacher on Special Assignment (TOSA) · $125,000 → $155,000 · p. 98 ↗+$30,000
School Site Instructional Leadership Team Coaching Support · $80,000 → $150,000 · p. 99 ↗+$70,000
High School Credit Recovery · $50,000 → $139,100 · p. 98 ↗+$89,100
Supplemental Academic Support for Secondary English Learners · $130,000 → $130,000 · p. 97 ↗unchanged
Expand dual enrollment and postsecondary options · $100,000 · p. 99 ↗new or renamed
English Learner Site Specialists · $50,000 → $50,000 · p. 97 ↗unchanged
Tutoring Support for Unduplicated Students · $50,000 → $50,000 · p. 98 ↗unchanged
Professional Development Science Instruction · $50,000 → $20,000 · p. 99 ↗−$30,000
A reworded title counts as new.
How the plan measures it · 21 measures
None of these has an all-students line we can quote; the plan’s table lists them from p. 13 ↗.
Goal 2Improve student resiliency, student engagement, and school climate through social, emotional development…$2.1 million2% of action budgets
“Improve student resiliency, student engagement, and school climate through social, emotional development, whole child engagement, and by maximizing physical and emotional safety as measured by state and local metrics” p. 40 ↗
7 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $1.5 million (+$584,391)
Largest funded actions
Whole Child Education Programming$900,000action 2.5 · p. 99 ↗
Mental Health Services$759,391action 2.8 · p. 99 ↗
District-level Support Services Liaison$250,000action 2.6 · p. 99 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
District-wide Student Attendance and Chronic Absenteeism System$110,000action 2.1 · p. 99 ↗
Social-Emotional Learning Curriculum$50,000action 2.7 · p. 99 ↗
2 more funded actions in this goal
California Healthy Kids Survey Administration · action 2.2 · p. 99 ↗$3,300
Support and Promote Student Connectedness Initiatives · action 2.4 · p. 99 ↗$1,000
Changes from last year’s plan, same title
Mental Health Services+$584,391$175,000 → $759,391 · p. 99 ↗
Every other line in this goal, against last year’s plan
California Healthy Kids Survey Administration · $3,300 → $3,300 · p. 99 ↗unchanged
Support and Promote Student Connectedness Initiatives · $1,000 → $1,000 · p. 99 ↗unchanged
How the plan measures it · 13 measures
None of these has an all-students line we can quote; the plan’s table lists them from p. 40 ↗.
Goal 3Improve inclusive practices to support equity, access, connectedness, and achievement for all learners as…$26.3 million24% of action budgets
“Improve inclusive practices to support equity, access, connectedness, and achievement for all learners as measured by state and local metrics” p. 54 ↗
8 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $25.3 million (+$1.1 million)
Largest funded actions
Special Education Programming$24.3 millionaction 3.2 · p. 100 ↗
After-school Enrichment for Unduplicated Pupils$0.7 millionaction 3.6 · p. 100 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
Develop a Comprehensive Work-Based Learning Continuum$0.5 millionaction 3.8 · p. 100 ↗
Site-based Supplemental Services for Unduplicated Students$0.4 millionaction 3.5 · p. 100 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
Expand and strengthen CTE Pathways$0.3 millionaction 3.7 · p. 100 ↗
3 more funded actions in this goal
Unduplicated Students Backpack Materials Giveaway · action 3.4 · p. 100 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need servicesunder $0.1 million
Co-teach Co-planning Days · action 3.1 · p. 100 ↗under $0.1 million
Expand Career and Technical Education Pathways and Opportunities · action 3.3 · p. 100 ↗under $0.1 million
Changes from last year’s plan, same title
Special Education Programming+$0.2 million$24.1 million → $24.3 million · p. 100 ↗
Co-teach Co-planning Days−$20,000$50,000 → $30,000 · p. 100 ↗
Every other line in this goal, against last year’s plan
After-school Enrichment for Unduplicated Pupils · $700,000 → $700,000 · p. 100 ↗unchanged
Develop a Comprehensive Work-Based Learning Continuum · $532,698 · p. 100 ↗new or renamed
Site-based Supplemental Services for Unduplicated Students · $400,000 → $400,000 · p. 100 ↗unchanged
Expand and strengthen CTE Pathways · $329,070 · p. 100 ↗new or renamed
Unduplicated Students Backpack Materials Giveaway · $40,000 → $40,000 · p. 100 ↗unchanged
Expand Career and Technical Education Pathways and Opportunities · $5,000 → $5,000 · p. 100 ↗unchanged
A reworded title counts as new.
How the plan measures it · 9 measures
None of these has an all-students line we can quote; the plan’s table lists them from p. 54 ↗.
Goal 4Promote parent, family, and community engagement, involvement, and satisfaction as measured by state and local metrics$85,000under 1% of action budgets
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, 9,470 students
1White41%
2Hispanic or Latino25%
3Two or more races16%
4Asian13%
5Black or African American3%
6Filipino2%
7Pacific Islander<1%
8American Indian or Alaska Native<1%
9Not reported<1%
Shares use the district's own October enrollment counts from the CDE, including its charter schools.
Free or reduced-price meals
17%
Across California, 63% of students qualify.
2024–25 · 1,595 of 9,454 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?
Redondo Beach 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, 56% of the district’s English learners moved up at least one level on the state’s English test (ELPAC), or stayed at the top (148 of 265 students). California: 47%. It counts students moving up the test’s levels, so a student can count here before becoming fluent.
Which public schools in Redondo Beach Unified rank highest?
Elementary: 2 schools at the 97th percentile (Strong): Alta Vista Elementary and Birney Elementary. Middle: Adams Middle, 93rd percentile (Strong). High: Redondo Union High, 89th 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 Redondo Beach 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.
More questions (5)
Are the public schools in Redondo Beach Unified good?
Redondo Beach Unified’s 8 public elementary schools run from the 83rd to the 97th percentile among the 5,726 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests). By band: 8 Strong. Redondo Beach Unified’s 2 public middle schools run from the 74th to the 93rd percentile among the 2,529 California middle schools we score (spring 2026 tests). By band: 1 Strong and 1 Solid. Redondo Beach Unified has one public high school we score, Redondo Union High, at the 89th 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 Redondo Beach Unified compare with California?
The average elementary school in Redondo Beach Unified had 6 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 Redondo Beach Unified spend per student?
Redondo Beach Unified spent $15,012 per student in the 2024–25 school year. The typical California district spent $20,491. About 67 cents of every Redondo Beach 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 Redondo Beach Unified’s 2026–27 spending plan?
The district’s 2026–27 spending plan puts $112.0 million into 44 funded actions in 4 goals, 79% of its $141.0 million general fund budget. Its largest goal holds $83.5 million, 75% 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 Redondo Beach 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.