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San Lorenzo Valley Unified schools

San Lorenzo Valley Unified’s 4 public elementary schools all sit between the 49th and the 69th percentile among the 5,726 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests).

Elementary · 4 schools

from 49th to 69th · among 5,726 California elementary schools we score · spring 2026 tests

  • Boulder Creek Elementary: 69th percentile, Solid
  • Ocean Grove Charter: 68th percentile, Solid
  • SLVUSD Charter: 62nd percentile, Solid
  • San Lorenzo Valley Elementary: 49th percentile, Developing
0Needs Support
1Developing
3Solid
0Strong

One dot per school.

Middle and high school pictures

Middle · 3 schools

from 76th to 85th · among 2,529 California middle schools we score · spring 2026 tests

  • Ocean Grove Charter: 85th percentile, Strong
  • SLVUSD Charter: 80th percentile, Strong
  • San Lorenzo Valley Middle: 76th percentile, Strong
0Needs Support
0Developing
0Solid
3Strong

High · 3 schools

from 66th to 79th · among 1,498 California high schools we score · spring 2025 tests

  • Ocean Grove Charter: 79th percentile, Strong
  • San Lorenzo Valley High: 67th percentile, Solid
  • SLVUSD Charter: 66th percentile, Solid
0Needs Support
0Developing
2Solid
1Strong

One dot per school. Each stage is placed only among California schools at its own level. 2 of the 6 ranked schools teach all three levels, so they appear in more than one picture.

  • 6 ranked schools
  • 2 of 6 are charter schools

Schools around San Lorenzo Valley Unified

6 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 San Lorenzo Valley Unified score highest?

Boulder Creek Elementary is highest, at the 69th percentile.

That’s higher than 69 in 100 of the 5,726 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests).

Highest in San Lorenzo Valley Unified

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

Show the other 1 elementary school
Context

The average elementary school in San Lorenzo Valley Unified had 10 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 San Lorenzo Valley Unified score highest?

Ocean Grove Charter is highest, at the 85th percentile.

That’s higher than 85 in 100 of the 2,529 California middle schools we score (spring 2026 tests).

Highest in San Lorenzo Valley Unified

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

Context

The average middle school in San Lorenzo Valley Unified had 10 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 San Lorenzo Valley Unified score highest?

Ocean Grove Charter is highest, at the 79th percentile.

That’s higher than 79 in 100 of the 1,498 California high schools we score (spring 2025 tests).

Highest in San Lorenzo Valley Unified

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

Context

The average high school in San Lorenzo Valley Unified had 12 in 100 students chronically absent in 2025–26; the average California high school we score had 22 in 100.

The district

Where does San Lorenzo Valley Unified’s money go, and what does it plan?

San Lorenzo Valley Unified spent $20,226 per student in the 2024–25 school year.

That’s close to the typical California district, which spent $20,491. About 55 cents of every San Lorenzo Valley 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

  • Instruction55%
  • Instruction support10%
  • Student services13%
  • Administration11%
  • Buildings & maintenance10%
  • Other1%

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

$5.8 million

planned in its 2026–27 plan for 14 funded actions in 3 goals. That’s 15% of its $38.8 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, 82 pages), as posted to the California School Dashboard.

Where the money goes

Three actions take 59% of the money. The plan itself puts 69% of it toward staff.

  • Personalized Supports for Identified Student Subgroups and Families $1.4 million
  • Sustainable School Systems and Environmentally Conscious & Prudent Systems $1.0 million
  • Encouraging student engagement and attendance $1.0 million
  • 11 other actions
Reading, math and catch-up help

1 of the plan’s 14 funded actions names reading, math, catch-up help or English learners in its title.

Actions whose titles name reading
  • Reading $7,945

Largest of these

  • Design and Support Environmental Literacy$7,945
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 $1.1 million in extra services for English learners, low-income students and foster youth. For 2025–26, it planned $1.1 million and estimates it spent $1.1 million, $0.1 million (5%) less than planned (our arithmetic).

What changed

The total is $353,326 (6%) lower than in the 2025–26 plan. The biggest change in dollars is Wellness Team, which went from $1.3 million to $964,209.

Largest cuts

  • Wellness Team−⁠$378,617
  • Sustainable School Systems and Environmentally Conscious & Prudent Systems−⁠$339,601
  • Educational Partnerships−⁠$44,423

Largest increases

  • Developing and Sustaining Tiered Instructional Supports+⁠$192,794
  • Personalized Supports for Identified Student Subgroups and Families+⁠$167,026
  • Analysis of Instructional Design and Student Access+⁠$39,947

Ask: What did Wellness Team pay for, and what changes now that the 2026–27 plan gives it $378,617 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 153%53%no change
Math, every tested grade: Proficient or Advanced in 2025–26, met or exceeded in 2024–25Goal 146%45%down 1 pt
Chronically absentCounted across all the district’s students, not averaged by schoolGoal 220 in 10020 in 100no change
Suspended at least onceGoal 23.8%5.1%up 1.3 pts

Goal 3 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
  • Personalized Supports for Identified Student Subgroups and Families · $1,412,723
  • Sustainable School Systems and Environmentally Conscious & Prudent Systems · $1,013,072
  • Encouraging student engagement and attendance · $1,005,410
The full plan3 goals, 42 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 ($5.8 million).

Where does the money go?

47% 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 1All students will be provided a high quality, equitable, and responsive educational program that results in…$2.7 million47% of action budgets

“All students will be provided a high quality, equitable, and responsive educational program that results in measurable annual progress towards the California State Standards and prepares them for the career and college options of their choice” p. 11 ↗

6 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $2.3 million (+⁠$441,505)

Largest funded actions

  1. Personalized Supports for Identified Student Subgroups and Families$1.4 millionaction 1.5 · p. 44 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $401,413 is state funding counted toward those services
  2. Analysis of Instructional Design and Student Access$0.8 millionaction 1.2 · p. 44 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $8,000 is state funding counted toward those services
  3. Developing and Sustaining Tiered Instructional Supports$0.2 millionaction 1.1 · p. 44 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $2,352 is state funding counted toward those services
  4. High Quality Staff and Support$0.2 millionaction 1.6 · p. 44 ↗
  5. On-going progress Monitoringunder $0.1 millionaction 1.3 · p. 44 ↗

1 more funded action in this goal

  • Encouraging Student Voice and agency through active engagement · action 1.4 · p. 44 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need servicesunder $0.1 million

Changes from last year’s plan, same title

  1. Developing and Sustaining Tiered Instructional Supports+⁠$192,794$52,632 → $245,426 · p. 44 ↗
  2. Personalized Supports for Identified Student Subgroups and Families+⁠$0.2 million$1.2 million → $1.4 million · p. 44 ↗
  3. Analysis of Instructional Design and Student Access+⁠$39,947$797,031 → $836,978 · p. 44 ↗

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

  • High Quality Staff and Support · $151,066 → $161,473 · p. 44 ↗+⁠$10,407
  • On-going progress Monitoring · $16,489 → $45,582 · p. 44 ↗+⁠$29,093
  • Encouraging Student Voice and agency through active engagement · $22,279 → $24,517 · p. 44 ↗+⁠$2,238

How the plan measures it · 17 measures · 3 quoted

  • CAASSP: ELA and Math CAST: Science Percent Meeting and Exceeding Standard p. 11 ↗
    Baseline
    2022-2023 District ELA All Students 54.03% …
    Target for year 3
    All Students 10% increase …
  • Math Benchmarks Percent at or above grade level p. 15 ↗
    Baseline
    District (Elementary Only) All Students 69% …
    Target for year 3
    70% or greater
  • K-2 Universal Screener Percent Screened p. 15 ↗
    Baseline
    2023-24 0%
    Target for year 3
    100%

14 more measures in the plan’s table.

Goal 2Schools will foster a supportive and inclusive learning environment focused on Social Emotional Learning and…$2.1 million36% of action budgets

“Schools will foster a supportive and inclusive learning environment focused on Social Emotional Learning and Culturally Responsive Teaching in order for students to thrive academically, personally, and socially” p. 23 ↗

5 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $2.5 million (−⁠$449,982)

Largest funded actions

  1. Encouraging student engagement and attendance$1.0 millionaction 2.4 · p. 44 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $372,049 is state funding counted toward those services
  2. Wellness Team$1.0 millionaction 2.2 · p. 44 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $321,056 is state funding counted toward those services
  3. Building Strong Social-Emotional Supportsunder $0.1 millionaction 2.1 · p. 44 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $1,200 is state funding counted toward those services
  4. Inclusion and Belongingunder $0.1 millionaction 2.3 · p. 44 ↗
  5. Educational Partnershipsunder $0.1 millionaction 2.5 · p. 45 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $7,000 is state funding counted toward those services

Changes from last year’s plan, same title

  1. Wellness Team−⁠$0.4 million$1.3 million → $1.0 million · p. 44 ↗
  2. Educational Partnerships−⁠$44,423$72,368 → $27,945 · p. 45 ↗
  3. Inclusion and Belonging−⁠$31,512$63,339 → $31,827 · p. 44 ↗

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

  • Encouraging student engagement and attendance · $1.0 million → $1.0 million · p. 44 ↗+⁠$12,170
  • Building Strong Social-Emotional Supports · $48,851 → $41,251 · p. 44 ↗−⁠$7,600

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. 23 ↗.

Goal 3Provide staff and students with the knowledge, skills and values necessary to understand, appreciate and…$1.0 million18% of action budgets

“Provide staff and students with the knowledge, skills and values necessary to understand, appreciate and responsibly engage with the natural world, to foster environmental stewardship and sustainability within our community” p. 31 ↗

3 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $1.4 million (−⁠$344,849)

Largest funded actions

  1. Sustainable School Systems and Environmentally Conscious & Prudent Systems$1.0 millionaction 3.3 · p. 45 ↗
  2. Design and Support Environmental Literacyunder $0.1 millionaction 3.1 · p. 45 ↗
  3. Environmental Engagement and Enrichmentunder $0.1 millionaction 3.2 · p. 45 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $800 is state funding counted toward those services

Changes from last year’s plan, same title

  1. Sustainable School Systems and Environmentally Conscious & Prudent Systems−⁠$0.3 million$1.4 million → $1.0 million · p. 45 ↗
  2. Design and Support Environmental Literacy−⁠$5,249$13,194 → $7,945 · p. 45 ↗
  3. Environmental Engagement and Enrichment+⁠$1$5,167 → $5,168 · p. 45 ↗

How the plan measures it · 15 measures · 2 quoted

  • Sustainable Fleet Percent of the fleet that is electric p. 33 ↗
    Baseline
    2023-24 9% electric
    Target for year 3
    23% Electric
  • FIT Reports Percent of sites rated "good" or higher p. 33 ↗
    Baseline
    2023-24 100%
    Target for year 3
    100%

13 more measures in the plan’s table.

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, 5,616 students
1. White: 52%2. Hispanic or Latino: 24%3. Two or more races: 9%4. Not reported: 7%5. Asian: 5%6. Filipino: 1%7. Black or African American: <1%8. Pacific Islander: <1%9. American Indian or Alaska Native: <1%Student mix2024–25
  1. White52%
  2. Hispanic or Latino24%
  3. Two or more races9%
  4. Not reported7%
  5. Asian5%
  6. Filipino1%
  7. Black or African American<1%
  8. Pacific Islander<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

26%

Across California, 63% of students qualify.

2024–25 · 1,445 of 5,606 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 San Lorenzo Valley 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, 32% of the district’s English learners moved up at least one level on the state’s English test (ELPAC), or stayed at the top (13 of 40 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 San Lorenzo Valley Unified rank highest?

Elementary: Boulder Creek Elementary, 69th percentile (Solid). Middle: Ocean Grove Charter, 85th percentile (Strong). High: Ocean Grove Charter, 79th 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 San Lorenzo Valley 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 San Lorenzo Valley Unified good?

San Lorenzo Valley Unified’s 4 public elementary schools run from the 49th to the 69th percentile among the 5,726 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests). By band: 3 Solid and 1 Developing. San Lorenzo Valley Unified’s 3 public middle schools run from the 76th to the 85th percentile among the 2,529 California middle schools we score (spring 2026 tests). By band: 3 Strong. San Lorenzo Valley Unified’s 3 public high schools run from the 66th to the 79th percentile among the 1,498 California high schools we score (spring 2025 tests). By band: 1 Strong and 2 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 San Lorenzo Valley Unified compare with California?

The average elementary school in San Lorenzo Valley Unified had 10 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 San Lorenzo Valley Unified had 10 in 100 students chronically absent in 2025–26; the average California middle school we score had 18 in 100. The average high school in San Lorenzo Valley Unified had 12 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 San Lorenzo Valley Unified spend per student?

San Lorenzo Valley Unified spent $20,226 per student in the 2024–25 school year. That’s close to the typical California district, which spent $20,491. About 55 cents of every San Lorenzo Valley 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 San Lorenzo Valley Unified’s 2026–27 spending plan?

The district’s 2026–27 spending plan puts $5.8 million into 14 funded actions in 3 goals, 15% of its $38.8 million general fund budget. Its largest goal holds $2.7 million, 47% 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 San Lorenzo Valley 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.