School district · Ventura County

Rio Elementary schools

Rio Elementary runs schools through 8th grade. Its 7 public elementary schools run from the 2nd to the 81st 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 · 7 schools

from 2nd to 81st · among 5,726 California elementary schools we score · spring 2026 tests

  • Rio del Sol: 81st percentile, Strong
  • Rio Del Mar: 32nd percentile, Developing
  • Rio Lindo Elementary: 30th percentile, Developing
  • Rio Real Elementary: 29th percentile, Developing
  • Rio Plaza Elementary: 23rd percentile, Needs Support
  • Rio del Norte: 12th percentile, Needs Support
  • Rio Rosales: 2nd percentile, Needs Support
3Needs Support
3Developing
0Solid
1Strong

Middle · 4 schools

from 11th to 83rd · among 2,529 California middle schools we score · spring 2026 tests

  • Rio del Sol: 83rd percentile, Strong
  • Rio Real Elementary: 52nd percentile, Solid
  • Rio del Valle Middle: 26th percentile, Developing
  • Rio Vista Middle: 11th percentile, Needs Support
1Needs Support
1Developing
1Solid
1Strong

One dot per school. Each stage is placed only among California schools at its own level. 2 of the 9 ranked schools teach two levels, so they appear in more than one picture.

  • 9 ranked schools

Schools around the Rio Elementary district

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 the Rio Elementary district score highest?

Rio del Sol is highest, at the 81st percentile.

That’s higher than 81 in 100 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests).

Highest in the Rio Elementary district

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

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Context

The average elementary school in the Rio Elementary district had 20 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 Rio Elementary district score highest?

Rio del Sol is highest, at the 83rd percentile.

That’s higher than 83 in 100 California middle schools we score (spring 2026 tests).

Highest in the Rio Elementary district

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

Show the other 1 middle school
Context

The average middle school in the Rio Elementary district had 17 in 100 students chronically absent in 2025–26; the average California middle school we score had 18 in 100.

The district

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

The Rio Elementary district spent $19,482 per student in the 2024–25 school year.

That’s close to the typical California district, which spent $20,491. About 63 cents of every Rio 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

  • Instruction63%
  • Instruction support10%
  • Student services8%
  • Administration8%
  • Buildings & maintenance9%
  • Other2%

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

$20.4 million

planned in its 2026–27 plan for 16 funded actions in 3 goals. 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, 149 pages), as posted to the California School Dashboard.

Where the money goes

Three actions take 44% of the money; their titles are below. The plan itself puts 76% of it toward staff.

Reading, math and catch-up help

2 of the plan’s 16 funded actions name reading, math, catch-up help or English learners in their titles.

Actions whose titles name English learners
  • English learners $903,048

Largest of these

  • Expanded Learning: athletics, PE, inclusion, support of ELs, Visual and Performing Arts$565,048
  • Dual Immersion, Multilingual Learners / ELD and ELPAC examiners$338,000
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 $19.8 million in extra services for English learners, low-income students and foster youth. For 2025–26, it planned $16.4 million and estimates it spent $16.9 million, $0.5 million (3%) more than planned (our arithmetic).

What changed

The total is $3.9 million (24%) higher than in the 2025–26 plan. The biggest change in dollars is Site-based certificated instruction: Maintain bargained class sizes and quality programming with credentialed teachers and CTE pathway teachers, which went from $2.4 million to $3.9 million.

Largest cuts

  • Standards Frameworks, supplemental and alternative curriculum and Software−⁠$870,959
  • Dual Immersion, Multilingual Learners / ELD and ELPAC examiners−⁠$304,104

Largest increases

  • Site-based certificated instruction: Maintain bargained class sizes and quality programming with credentialed teachers and CTE pathway teachers+⁠$1.4 million
  • Transportation+⁠$918,211
  • Health & Wellness: Student Services such as SEL, Counseling, parent liaisons, outreach, behaviorists, mental health clinicians, etc+⁠$749,563

New in the 2026–27 plan

  • Anti-bullying and Anti-racism Efforts$125,000
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 135%35%no change
Math, every tested grade: Proficient or Advanced in 2025–26, met or exceeded in 2024–25Goal 125%26%up 1 pt
Chronically absentCounted across all the district’s students, not averaged by schoolGoal 3 · Goal Description and Explanation21 in 10020 in 1001 fewer in 100
Suspended at least onceGoal 3 · Goal Description and Explanation3.0%1.9%down 1.1 pts

Goal 2 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
  • Site-based certificated instruction: Maintain bargained class sizes and quality programming with credentialed teachers and CTE pathway teachers · $3,878,762
  • Health & Wellness: Student Services such as SEL, Counseling, parent liaisons, outreach, behaviorists, mental health clinicians, etc · $2,859,585
  • Safety and wellness: Campus supervisors, SROs, health, nurses, etc · $2,146,629
The full plan3 goals, 22 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 ($20.4 million).

Where does the money go?

45% to Goal 2. 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 1Goal #1 is a broad goal to address pupil outcomes and student engagement. The objective is to ensure equity…$4.1 million20% of action budgets

“Goal #1 is a broad goal to address pupil outcomes and student engagement. The objective is to ensure equity in education that will prepare students to thrive in the 5Cs: Critical Thinking, Creativity, Communication, Collaboration, and Caring. This goal also builds on providing extra support towards priorities aligned with pupil outcomes (4,8) and conditions of learning (1,2,7). State Priority 7 addresses the requirement to go beyond ELA and Math to ensure that students have access to and are enrolled in a broad course of study (Arts, Music, Drama, Social Sciences, Health, PE, etc.) The Rio School District will continue to provide all students with a broad course of study and expanded engagement opportunities and academic support to ensure that learning is taking place for all students, including English Language Learners, foster youth, low socioeconomic youth (including homeless youth) and students with disabilities. This goal is based on analysis and data from the California Dashboard, previous LCAP evaluation and reflection, educational partner surveys and input, local assessments, reclassification rates, and CAASPP and ELPAC results. By 2026/​27 Rio School District will achieve increases in overall student proficiency in core academic subjects, as measured by CA state assessments and local indicators. This will be accomplished through action items such as targeted instructional practices, professional development and increased support for students from diverse backgrounds; specifically for unduplicated student groups such as English Language Learners, foster youth, low socioeconomic youth (including homeless youth) and students with disabilities” p. 20 ↗

5 funded actions · reworded since the 2025–26 plan

Largest funded actions

  1. Course Access (ex. CTE, Electives (music, art, dance), Labs, Clubs, outdoor learning, GATE, etc)$1.8 millionaction 1.4 · p. 108 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  2. Professional Development (TOSAs & contracts; ex. AVID, SEAL, DMTI, CRLP, Inclusion)$1.0 millionaction 1.3 · p. 108 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  3. TK / Kindergarten, push in teachers, IAs, TK/​K curriculum$0.5 millionaction 1.5 · p. 108 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  4. Standards Frameworks, supplemental and alternative curriculum and Software$0.4 millionaction 1.2 · p. 108 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $399,934 is state funding counted toward those services
  5. Dual Immersion, Multilingual Learners / ELD and ELPAC examiners$0.3 millionaction 1.1 · p. 108 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services

Changes from last year’s plan, same title

  1. Standards Frameworks, supplemental and alternative curriculum and Software−⁠$0.9 million$1.3 million → $0.4 million · p. 108 ↗
  2. Professional Development (TOSAs & contracts; ex. AVID, SEAL, DMTI, CRLP, Inclusion)+⁠$0.5 million$0.5 million → $1.0 million · p. 108 ↗
  3. Dual Immersion, Multilingual Learners / ELD and ELPAC examiners−⁠$304,104$642,104 → $338,000 · p. 108 ↗

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

  • Course Access (ex. CTE, Electives (music, art, dance), Labs, Clubs, outdoor learning, GATE, etc) · $1.8 million → $1.8 million · p. 108 ↗+⁠$0.1 million
  • TK / Kindergarten, push in teachers, IAs, TK/​K curriculum · $385,176 → $476,653 · p. 108 ↗+⁠$91,477

How the plan measures it · 8 measures

None of these has an all-students line we can quote; the plan’s table lists them from p. 20 ↗.

Goal 2 · Maintenance of Progress GoalGoal #2 is a maintenance goal that addresses learning conditions to maintain and strengthen a safe and…$9.1 million45% of action budgets

“Goal #2 is a maintenance goal that addresses learning conditions to maintain and strengthen a safe and welcoming school environment. The objective is to provide an education that will address State Priority #5, Pupil Engagement, and State Priority #7, Course Access, by preparing students to thrive in the 5Cs: Critical Thinking, Creativity, Communication, Collaboration, and Caring. The Rio School District will continue to provide all students with fully credentialed teachers to ensure that learning is taking place (English Language Learners, foster youth, low socio-economic youth (including homeless youth), and students with disabilities.). Rio district assesses technology needs regularly to ensure plans are updated and actions/​services are in place to support student achievement, such as WIFI accessibility, software upgrades, etc. To ensure access to basic conditions of learning, transportation, fully credentialed and appropriately assigned teachers, support staff and qualified community partners help to maintain a welcoming and safe environment which is critical for learning. Maintaining adequate conditions and access to engaging courses of study helps set up our students for success. This goal is based on data and analysis of the California Dashboard, previous LCAP evaluation and reflection, educational partner surveys, local assessments, reclassification rates, and CAASPP and ELPAC results” p. 42 ↗

4 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $6.6 million (+⁠$2.5 million)

Largest funded actions

  1. Site-based certificated instruction: Maintain bargained class sizes and quality programming with credentialed teachers and CTE pathway teachers$3.9 millionaction 2.3 · p. 109 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  2. Technology$2.1 millionaction 2.2 · p. 109 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  3. Transportation$1.7 millionaction 2.1 · p. 108 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  4. School Plan for Student Achievement (SPSA): School site support$1.5 millionaction 2.4 · p. 109 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services

Changes from last year’s plan, same title

  1. Site-based certificated instruction: Maintain bargained class sizes and quality programming with credentialed teachers and CTE pathway teachers+⁠$1.4 million$2.4 million → $3.9 million · p. 109 ↗
  2. Transportation+⁠$0.9 million$0.8 million → $1.7 million · p. 108 ↗
  3. School Plan for Student Achievement (SPSA): School site support+⁠$0.2 million$1.3 million → $1.5 million · p. 109 ↗

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

  • Technology · $2.1 million → $2.1 million · p. 109 ↗+⁠$15,957

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. 42 ↗.

Goal 3 · Focus GoalGoal Description and Explanation$7.2 million35% of action budgets

“2023-24: Focus goal addressing pupil engagement and positive school climate. 2024-25: Added emphasis on increasing the feeling of positive school safety and reducing chronic absenteeism and suspension rates. 2025-26 Added emphasis on addressing anti-racism and bullying as a result of community feedback. Goal #3 is a focus goal that addresses pupil engagement. This goal enhances enriching opportunities and addresses the individual needs of all learners so they can more equitably access state standards and curriculum. Rio School District has developed the Focus Goal to address the area of increasing needs and services so all students have the support needed to thrive in the 5Cs: Critical Thinking, Creativity, Communication, Collaboration, and Caring. By 2026 the Rio School District will align action/​services to add additional social and emotional support and maintain expanded learning opportunities that support the implementation of state standards with curriculum and services to help increase State Priority #6, positive school climate and engagement as measured by educational partner engagement surveys, attendance, and suspensions. Efforts to address issues of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging have been integrated into the district’s accountability plan, alongside facility operation efforts undertaken to enhance the safety and accessibility of the physical environment (ex fencing, alarms, communication, and facilities). Ongoing review and revisions to classroom curriculum and the school library books are being made to ensure a comprehensive representation of history’s diversity. To increase the feeling of positive school safety and to reduce chronic absenteeism and overall suspension rates, student and family engagement will continue to be a priority. School site councils, Parent Advisory Committees and educational partner opportunities provide access for parents and students to review safety plans and influence policies and practices. As Rio School District qualifies for Technical Assistance, Goal 3 addresses State Priority 6: School Climate (Engagement). All schools are working to improve English Language Development and supports to English Learners to address the needs of Long Term English Learners. This is being done through supplemental materials that will be purchased using Learning Recovery and Emergeny Block Grant Funds to support English Learners. Items such as library books to show a” p. 51 ↗

7 funded actions · reworded since the 2025–26 plan

Largest funded actions

  1. Health & Wellness: Student Services such as SEL, Counseling, parent liaisons, outreach, behaviorists, mental health clinicians, etc$2.9 millionaction 3.5 · p. 110 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  2. Safety and wellness: Campus supervisors, SROs, health, nurses, etc$2.1 millionaction 3.6 · p. 110 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  3. Expanded Learning: athletics, PE, inclusion, support of ELs, Visual and Performing Arts$0.6 millionaction 3.3 · p. 109 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  4. MTSS PD, Intervention, tutoring, GATE, enrichment, attendance, student services, behavioral and academic supports, pupil services (preschool support)$0.6 millionaction 3.1 · p. 109 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $166,903 is state funding counted toward those services
  5. Parent and Community Engagement: PAC, PELAC, translation, compliance requirements, enrollment, community engagement events (art shows, music, recognition events, etc)$0.5 millionaction 3.4 · p. 109 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services

2 more funded actions in this goal

  • Outdoor education, field trips, Ag/​Life Sciences, Farm and Garden education, nutrition education, health and wellness, etc · action 3.2 · p. 109 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $387,737 is state funding counted toward those services$0.4 million
  • Anti-bullying and Anti-racism Efforts · action 3.7 · p. 110 ↗$0.1 million

Changes from last year’s plan, same title

  1. Health & Wellness: Student Services such as SEL, Counseling, parent liaisons, outreach, behaviorists, mental health clinicians, etc+⁠$0.7 million$2.1 million → $2.9 million · p. 110 ↗
  2. Expanded Learning: athletics, PE, inclusion, support of ELs, Visual and Performing Arts+⁠$362,630$202,418 → $565,048 · p. 109 ↗
  3. Parent and Community Engagement: PAC, PELAC, translation, compliance requirements, enrollment, community engagement events (art shows, music, recognition events, etc)+⁠$229,313$291,370 → $520,683 · p. 109 ↗

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

  • Safety and wellness: Campus supervisors, SROs, health, nurses, etc · $2.0 million → $2.1 million · p. 110 ↗+⁠$0.2 million
  • MTSS PD, Intervention, tutoring, GATE, enrichment, attendance, student services, behavioral and academic supports, pupil services (preschool support) · $529,848 → $562,684 · p. 109 ↗+⁠$32,836
  • Outdoor education, field trips, Ag/​Life Sciences, Farm and Garden education, nutrition education, health and wellness, etc · $252,618 → $412,737 · p. 109 ↗+⁠$160,119
  • Anti-bullying and Anti-racism Efforts · $125,000 · p. 110 ↗new or renamed

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. 51 ↗.

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, 5,251 students
1. Hispanic or Latino: 86%2. White: 5%3. Filipino: 3%4. Two or more races: 2%5. Asian: 2%6. Black or African American: 2%7. American Indian or Alaska Native: <1%8. Pacific Islander: <1%Student mix2024–25
  1. Hispanic or Latino86%
  2. White5%
  3. Filipino3%
  4. Two or more races2%
  5. Asian2%
  6. Black or African American2%
  7. American Indian or Alaska Native<1%
  8. Pacific Islander<1%
  9. Not reported0%
Shares use the district's own October enrollment counts from the CDE, including its charter schools.

Free or reduced-price meals

74%

Across California, 63% of students qualify.

2024–25 · 3,863 of 5,250 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 Rio Elementary extra help in 2026. A student group had the Dashboard’s lowest results (red) on two or more measures three years in a row.

It also qualified the year before.

Which students, on which measures

Homeless students
English and math

How English learners moved up on the state’s English test

From spring 2025 to spring 2026, 52% of the district’s English learners moved up at least one level on the state’s English test (ELPAC), or stayed at the top (767 of 1,479 students). California: 47%. It counts students moving up the test’s levels, so a student can count here before becoming fluent.

2 schools getting state support, 2025–26

Rio del Norte (Targeted support) · Rio del Valle Middle (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.

Which places nearby can you look at next?

Cities in the district

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Districts nearby

Common questions

Which public schools in the Rio Elementary district rank highest?

Elementary: Rio del Sol, 81st percentile (Strong). Middle: Rio del Sol, 83rd 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 Rio 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 Rio Elementary district good?

Rio Elementary’s 7 public elementary schools run from the 2nd to the 81st percentile among the 5,726 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests). By band: 1 Strong, 3 Developing and 3 Needs Support. Rio Elementary’s 4 public middle schools run from the 11th to the 83rd percentile among the 2,529 California middle schools we score (spring 2026 tests). By band: 1 Strong, 1 Solid, 1 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 the Rio Elementary district compare with California?

The average elementary school in the Rio Elementary district had 20 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 Rio Elementary district had 17 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 Rio Elementary district spend per student?

The Rio Elementary district spent $19,482 per student in the 2024–25 school year. That’s close to the typical California district, which spent $20,491. About 63 cents of every Rio 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 Rio Elementary district’s 2026–27 spending plan?

The district’s 2026–27 spending plan puts $20.4 million into 16 funded actions in 3 goals. Its largest goal holds $9.1 million, 45% 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 Rio 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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