School district · Stanislaus County

Sylvan Union Elementary schools

Sylvan Union Elementary runs schools through 8th grade. Its 10 public elementary schools run from the 2nd to the 68th 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 · 10 schools

from 2nd to 68th · among 5,726 California elementary schools we score · spring 2026 tests

  • Crossroads Elementary: 68th percentile, Solid
  • Mary Ann Sanders Elementary: 62nd percentile, Solid
  • Freedom Elementary: 60th percentile, Solid
  • Standiford Elementary: 40th percentile, Developing
  • Stockard Coffee Elementary: 34th percentile, Developing
  • Sylvan Elementary: 28th percentile, Developing
  • Sherwood Elementary: 18th percentile, Needs Support
  • Orchard Elementary: 16th percentile, Needs Support
  • Coleman F. Brown Elementary: 14th percentile, Needs Support
  • Woodrow Elementary: 2nd percentile, Needs Support
4Needs Support
3Developing
3Solid
0Strong

Middle · 3 schools

from 9th to 76th · among 2,529 California middle schools we score · spring 2026 tests

  • Elizabeth Ustach Middle: 76th percentile, Strong
  • Daniel J. Savage Middle: 54th percentile, Solid
  • Somerset Middle: 9th percentile, Needs Support
1Needs Support
0Developing
1Solid
1Strong

One dot per school. Each stage is placed only among California schools at its own level.

Schools around the Sylvan Union Elementary district

13 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 Sylvan Union Elementary district score highest?

Crossroads Elementary is highest, at the 68th percentile.

That’s higher than 68 in 100 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests).

Highest in the Sylvan Union Elementary district

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

Show the other 7 elementary schools
Context

The average elementary school in the Sylvan Union Elementary district had 14 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 Sylvan Union Elementary district score highest?

Elizabeth Ustach Middle is highest, at the 76th percentile.

That’s higher than 76 in 100 California middle schools we score (spring 2026 tests).

Highest in the Sylvan Union Elementary district

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

Context

The average middle school in the Sylvan Union 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 Sylvan Union Elementary’s money go, and what does it plan?

The Sylvan Union Elementary district spent $17,849 per student in the 2024–25 school year.

The typical California district spent $20,491. About 67 cents of every Sylvan Union 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

  • Instruction67%
  • Instruction support12%
  • Student services8%
  • Administration6%
  • Buildings & maintenance7%

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

$38.2 million

planned in its 2026–27 plan for 20 funded actions in 3 goals. That’s 26% of its $145.9 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, 146 pages), as posted to the California School Dashboard.

Where the money goes

Three actions take 61% of the money. The plan itself puts 71% of it toward staff.

  • School to Pupil Connections $14.3 million
  • Positive Behavior Supports $5.5 million
  • Professional Learning $3.5 million
  • 17 other actions
Reading, math and catch-up help

1 of the plan’s 20 funded actions names reading, math, catch-up help or English learners in its title.

Actions whose titles name math or catch-up help
  • Math $134,966
  • Catch-up help $134,966

An action naming two of these appears under both.

Largest of these

  • Math Intervention Teacher$134,966
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 $19.9 million in extra services for English learners, low-income students and foster youth. For 2025–26, it planned $19.4 million and estimates it spent $18.4 million, $1.0 million (5%) less than planned (our arithmetic).

Ask: Why did estimated spending on these services come in $1.0 million under the 2025–26 plan, and where does that money go in 2026–27?

What changed

The total is $6.2 million (19%) higher than in the 2025–26 plan. The biggest change in dollars is School to Pupil Connections, which went from $8.5 million to $14.3 million.

Largest cuts

  • English Language Learners−⁠$963,241
  • Professional Learning−⁠$333,635
  • Educational Opportunities−⁠$226,288

Largest increases

  • School to Pupil Connections+⁠$5.9 million
  • Technology Integration+⁠$563,583
  • Professional Learning Communities+⁠$216,049

New in the 2026–27 plan

  • Instructional Facilitator$293,780
  • Math Intervention Teacher$134,966
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 243%42%down 1 pt
Math, every tested grade: Proficient or Advanced in 2025–26, met or exceeded in 2024–25Goal 236%35%down 1 pt
Chronically absentCounted across all the district’s students, not averaged by schoolGoal 115 in 10015 in 100no change
Suspended at least onceGoal 14.5%5.1%up 0.6 pts

Goal 3 isn’t shown because it tracks named schools.

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
  • School to Pupil Connections · $14,346,872
  • Positive Behavior Supports · $5,505,239
  • Professional Learning · $3,451,910
The full plan3 goals, 44 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 ($38.2 million).

Where does the money go?

62% 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

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 1Sylvan District will create supportive, welcoming, and engaging campuses for pupils, parents, staff, and the community$23.8 million62% of action budgets

9 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $17.7 million (+⁠$6.1 million) · p. 15 ↗

Largest funded actions

  1. School to Pupil Connections$14.3 millionaction 1.5 · p. 106 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $1.1 million is state funding counted toward those services
  2. Positive Behavior Supports$5.5 millionaction 1.3 · p. 106 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $4.1 million is state funding counted toward those services
  3. Social Emotional$2.6 millionaction 1.2 · p. 106 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $2.0 million is state funding counted toward those services
  4. Pupil Attendance$0.5 millionaction 1.4 · p. 106 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $109,633 is state funding counted toward those services
  5. Educational Opportunities$0.5 millionaction 1.7 · p. 106 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $347,989 is state funding counted toward those services

4 more funded actions in this goal

  • Safety Protocol · action 1.8 · p. 106 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.2 million
  • Translation and Interpretation Services · action 1.6 · p. 106 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need servicesunder $0.1 million
  • Parent Training Opportunities · action 1.1 · p. 106 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need servicesunder $0.1 million
  • Technical Assistance · action 1.9 · p. 106 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need servicesunder $0.1 million

Changes from last year’s plan, same title

  1. School to Pupil Connections+⁠$5.9 million$8.5 million → $14.3 million · p. 106 ↗
  2. Educational Opportunities−⁠$226,288$710,507 → $484,219 · p. 106 ↗
  3. Social Emotional+⁠$0.2 million$2.5 million → $2.6 million · p. 106 ↗

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

  • Positive Behavior Supports · $5.4 million → $5.5 million · p. 106 ↗+⁠$0.1 million
  • Pupil Attendance · $442,579 → $487,549 · p. 106 ↗+⁠$44,970
  • Safety Protocol · $121,485 → $167,158 · p. 106 ↗+⁠$45,673
  • Translation and Interpretation Services · $67,315 → $50,000 · p. 106 ↗−⁠$17,315
  • Parent Training Opportunities · $35,680 → $37,937 · p. 106 ↗+⁠$2,257
  • Technical Assistance · $31,340 · p. 106 ↗new or renamed

A reworded title counts as new.

How the plan measures it · 14 measures

None of these has an all-students line we can quote; the plan’s table lists them from p. 15 ↗.

Goal 2Sylvan District will promote and create learning environments with highly qualified personnel that will…$14.0 million37% of action budgets

“Sylvan District will promote and create learning environments with highly qualified personnel that will maximize access to the academic core for all pupils, including targeted groups, as well as provide enrichment opportunities that will allow our pupils to demonstrate proficiency and literacy to meet the demands of high school, college and career readiness” p. 37 ↗

7 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $14.4 million (−⁠$372,610)

Largest funded actions

  1. Professional Learning$3.5 millionaction 2.1 · p. 107 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $2.7 million is state funding counted toward those services
  2. English Language Learners$3.4 millionaction 2.5 · p. 107 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  3. Technology Integration$2.9 millionaction 2.4 · p. 107 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $2.4 million is state funding counted toward those services
  4. Professional Learning Communities$2.4 millionaction 2.2 · p. 107 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  5. Library Access$1.4 millionaction 2.3 · p. 107 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services

2 more funded actions in this goal

  • Facilities · action 2.8 · p. 107 ↗$0.3 million
  • Multi-Tiered Systems of Support · action 2.6 · p. 107 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.1 million

Changes from last year’s plan, same title

  1. English Language Learners−⁠$1.0 million$4.4 million → $3.4 million · p. 107 ↗
  2. Technology Integration+⁠$0.6 million$2.4 million → $2.9 million · p. 107 ↗
  3. Professional Learning−⁠$0.3 million$3.8 million → $3.5 million · p. 107 ↗

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

  • Professional Learning Communities · $2.2 million → $2.4 million · p. 107 ↗+⁠$0.2 million
  • Library Access · $1.2 million → $1.4 million · p. 107 ↗+⁠$0.1 million
  • Facilities · $292,660 → $292,660 · p. 107 ↗unchanged
  • Multi-Tiered Systems of Support · $100,567 → $100,567 · p. 107 ↗unchanged

How the plan measures it · 22 measures

None of these has an all-students line we can quote; the plan’s table lists them from p. 37 ↗.

Goal 3 · Equity Multiplier Focus GoalSylvan Union School District (SUSD) will strategically allocate and utilize Equity Multiplier funds at…$493,7461% of action budgets

“Sylvan Union School District (SUSD) will strategically allocate and utilize Equity Multiplier funds at Coleman F. Brown (CFB) Elementary to reduce academic disparities among underserved student populations, as evidenced by measurable decreases in chronic absenteeism and suspension rates and improvements in academic proficiency levels in core subjects” p. 76 ↗

4 funded actions · no goal 3 in the 2025–26 plan

Largest funded actions

  1. Instructional Facilitator$293,780action 3.3 · p. 107 ↗
  2. Math Intervention Teacher$134,966action 3.4 · p. 108 ↗
  3. Professional Learning$40,000action 3.1 · p. 107 ↗
  4. Professional Learning Communities (PLC)$25,000action 3.2 · p. 107 ↗

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

  • Instructional Facilitator · $293,780 · p. 107 ↗new or renamed
  • Math Intervention Teacher · $134,966 · p. 108 ↗new or renamed
  • Professional Learning · $40,000 · p. 107 ↗new or renamed
  • Professional Learning Communities (PLC) · $25,000 · p. 107 ↗new or renamed

A reworded title counts as new.

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. 76 ↗.

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, 7,977 students
1. Hispanic or Latino: 51%2. White: 24%3. Asian: 9%4. Two or more races: 6%5. Black or African American: 3%6. Not reported: 3%7. Filipino: 2%8. Pacific Islander: 1%9. American Indian or Alaska Native: <1%Student mix2024–25
  1. Hispanic or Latino51%
  2. White24%
  3. Asian9%
  4. Two or more races6%
  5. Black or African American3%
  6. Not reported3%
  7. Filipino2%
  8. Pacific Islander1%
  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

65%

Across California, 63% of students qualify.

2024–25 · 5,147 of 7,974 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 Sylvan Union 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

Students with disabilities
English and math

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

From spring 2025 to spring 2026, 53% of the district’s English learners moved up at least one level on the state’s English test (ELPAC), or stayed at the top (484 of 916 students). California: 47%. It counts students moving up the test’s levels, so a student can count here before becoming fluent.

1 school getting state support, 2025–26

Standiford Elementary (Extra targeted support)

  • Standiford ElementaryExtra targeted support: students with disabilities and students of two or more races

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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Common questions

Which public schools in the Sylvan Union Elementary district rank highest?

Elementary: Crossroads Elementary, 68th percentile (Solid). Middle: Elizabeth Ustach Middle, 76th 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 Sylvan Union 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.
More questions (5)

Are the public schools in the Sylvan Union Elementary district good?

Sylvan Union Elementary’s 10 public elementary schools run from the 2nd to the 68th percentile among the 5,726 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests). By band: 3 Solid, 3 Developing and 4 Needs Support. Sylvan Union Elementary’s 3 public middle schools run from the 9th to the 76th percentile among the 2,529 California middle schools we score (spring 2026 tests). By band: 1 Strong, 1 Solid 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 Sylvan Union Elementary district compare with California?

The average elementary school in the Sylvan Union Elementary district had 14 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 Sylvan Union 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 Sylvan Union Elementary district spend per student?

The Sylvan Union Elementary district spent $17,849 per student in the 2024–25 school year. The typical California district spent $20,491. About 67 cents of every Sylvan Union 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 Sylvan Union Elementary district’s 2026–27 spending plan?

The district’s 2026–27 spending plan puts $38.2 million into 20 funded actions in 3 goals, 26% of its $145.9 million general fund budget. Its largest goal holds $23.8 million, 62% 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 Sylvan Union 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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