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Solana Beach Elementary schools

Solana Beach Elementary runs schools through 6th grade. Its 4 public elementary schools run from the 94th to the 99th 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 · 4 schools

from 94th to 99th · among 5,726 California elementary schools we score · spring 2026 tests

  • Solana Ranch Elementary: 99th percentile, Strong
  • Solana Highlands Elementary: 98th percentile, Strong
  • Solana Santa Fe Elementary: 97th percentile, Strong
  • Skyline Elementary: 94th percentile, Strong
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Schools around the Solana Beach Elementary district

4 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 Solana Beach Elementary district score highest?

Solana Ranch Elementary is highest, at the 99th percentile.

That’s higher than 99 in 100 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests).

Highest in the Solana Beach 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 Solana Beach Elementary district had 2 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 district

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

The Solana Beach Elementary district spent $25,543 per student in the 2024–25 school year.

The typical California district spent $20,491. About 60 cents of every Solana Beach 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

  • Instruction60%
  • Instruction support10%
  • Student services9%
  • Administration10%
  • Buildings & maintenance8%
  • Other3%

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

$7.8 million

planned in its 2026–27 plan for 7 funded actions in 2 goals. That’s 11% of its $71.5 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, 85 pages), as posted to the California School Dashboard.

Where the money goes

Three actions take 78% of the money. The plan itself puts 70% of it toward staff.

  • Physical Safety and Optimal Learning Environments $3.0 million
  • Implementation of state standards $1.8 million
  • Targeted and Intensive Supports - Unduplicated Populations $1.3 million
  • 4 other actions
Reading, math and catch-up help

No action title in this plan names reading, math, catch-up help or English learners.

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 $1.6 million in extra services for English learners, low-income students and foster youth. For 2025–26, it planned $1.7 million and estimates it spent $1.9 million, $0.2 million (9%) more than planned (our arithmetic).

What changed

The total is $433,199 (6%) higher than in the 2025–26 plan. The biggest change in dollars is Physical Safety and Optimal Learning Environments, which went from $2.6 million to $3.0 million.

Largest cuts

  • Professional learning and collaboration for enhanced instruction−⁠$103,000
  • Targeted and Intensive Supports - Unduplicated Populations−⁠$89,478

Largest increases

  • Physical Safety and Optimal Learning Environments+⁠$439,003
  • Implementation of state standards+⁠$125,362
  • District Wellness: Physical, Social-Emotional Learning, and Mental Health Supports+⁠$60,496

Ask: What did Professional learning and collaboration for enhanced instruction pay for, and what changes now that the 2026–27 plan gives it $103,000 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 184%83%down 1 pt
Math, every tested grade: Proficient or Advanced in 2025–26, met or exceeded in 2024–25Goal 182%82%no change
Chronically absentCounted across all the district’s students, not averaged by schoolGoal 24 in 1003 in 1001 fewer in 100
Suspended at least onceGoal 20.3%0.3%no change

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
  • Physical Safety and Optimal Learning Environments · $3,018,051
  • Implementation of state standards · $1,753,080
  • Targeted and Intensive Supports - Unduplicated Populations · $1,303,458
The full plan2 goals, 33 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 ($7.8 million).

Where does the money go?

53% 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.

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G2

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 1Each and every student will demonstrate growth towards meeting or exceeding grade-level standards$3.7 million47% of action budgets

4 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $3.7 million (−⁠$75,047) · p. 12 ↗

Largest funded actions

  1. Implementation of state standards$1.8 millionaction 1.1 · p. 48 ↗
  2. Targeted and Intensive Supports - Unduplicated Populations$1.3 millionaction 1.6 · p. 48 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $1.2 million is state funding counted toward those services
  3. Jumpstart Program$0.4 millionaction 1.4 · p. 48 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  4. Professional learning and collaboration for enhanced instruction$0.2 millionaction 1.2 · p. 48 ↗

Changes from last year’s plan, same title

  1. Implementation of state standards+⁠$0.1 million$1.6 million → $1.8 million · p. 48 ↗
  2. Professional learning and collaboration for enhanced instruction−⁠$103,000$273,000 → $170,000 · p. 48 ↗
  3. Targeted and Intensive Supports - Unduplicated Populations−⁠$0.1 million$1.4 million → $1.3 million · p. 48 ↗

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

  • Jumpstart Program · $439,580 → $431,649 · p. 48 ↗−⁠$7,931

How the plan measures it · 15 measures

None of these has an all-students line we can quote; the plan’s table lists them from p. 12 ↗.

Goal 2Each and every student will feel connected, engaged, and supported in a positive, safe, and inclusive school…$4.2 million53% of action budgets

“Each and every student will feel connected, engaged, and supported in a positive, safe, and inclusive school environment that fosters physical, social and emotional well-being” p. 29 ↗

3 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $3.7 million (+⁠$508,246)

Largest funded actions

  1. Physical Safety and Optimal Learning Environments$3.0 millionaction 2.5 · p. 48 ↗
  2. District Wellness: Physical, Social-Emotional Learning, and Mental Health Supports$1.1 millionaction 2.1 · p. 48 ↗
  3. Parent/​Guardian/​Family Engagement$0.1 millionaction 2.3 · p. 48 ↗

Changes from last year’s plan, same title

  1. Physical Safety and Optimal Learning Environments+⁠$0.4 million$2.6 million → $3.0 million · p. 48 ↗
  2. District Wellness: Physical, Social-Emotional Learning, and Mental Health Supports+⁠$0.1 million$1.0 million → $1.1 million · p. 48 ↗
  3. Parent/​Guardian/​Family Engagement+⁠$8,747$91,142 → $99,889 · p. 48 ↗

How the plan measures it · 18 measures

None of these has an all-students line we can quote; the plan’s table lists them from p. 29 ↗.

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, 2,620 students
1. White: 44%2. Asian: 28%3. Hispanic or Latino: 14%4. Two or more races: 10%5. Not reported: 3%6. Filipino: <1%7. Black or African American: <1%8. Pacific Islander: <1%9. American Indian or Alaska Native: <1%Student mix2024–25
  1. White44%
  2. Asian28%
  3. Hispanic or Latino14%
  4. Two or more races10%
  5. Not reported3%
  6. Filipino<1%
  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.

Free or reduced-price meals

14%

Across California, 63% of students qualify.

2024–25 · 361 of 2,619 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?

Solana Beach Elementary 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, 64% of the district’s English learners moved up at least one level on the state’s English test (ELPAC), or stayed at the top (97 of 152 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 the Solana Beach Elementary district rank highest?

Elementary: Solana Ranch Elementary, 99th percentile (Strong). Each percentile is among the California elementary schools we score. A rank doesn’t decide fit or whether a child can enroll.

Does living in the Solana Beach 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 Solana Beach Elementary district good?

Solana Beach Elementary’s 4 public elementary schools run from the 94th to the 99th percentile among the 5,726 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests). By band: 4 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 the Solana Beach Elementary district compare with California?

The average elementary school in the Solana Beach Elementary district had 2 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 the Solana Beach Elementary district spend per student?

The Solana Beach Elementary district spent $25,543 per student in the 2024–25 school year. The typical California district spent $20,491. About 60 cents of every Solana Beach 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 Solana Beach Elementary district’s 2026–27 spending plan?

The district’s 2026–27 spending plan puts $7.8 million into 7 funded actions in 2 goals, 11% of its $71.5 million general fund budget. Its largest goal holds $4.2 million, 53% 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 Solana Beach 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.

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