Turlock Unified’s 9 public elementary schools run from the 1st to the 80th percentile among the 5,726 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests). They sit in all four bands, from Strong to Needs Support.
Elementary · 9 schools
from 1st to 80th · among 5,726 California elementary schools we score · spring 2026 tests
Dennis G. Earl Elementary: 20th percentile, Needs Support
Walter M. Brown Elementary: 14th percentile, Needs Support
Cunningham Elementary: 1st percentile, Needs Support
3Needs Support
3Developing
2Solid
1Strong
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One dot per school.
Middle and high school pictures
Middle · 3 schools
from 10th to 50th · among 2,529 California middle schools we score · spring 2026 tests
Marvin A. Dutcher Middle: 50th percentile, Solid
Turlock Junior High: 41st percentile, Developing
eCademy Charter at Crane: 10th percentile, Needs Support
1Needs Support
1Developing
1Solid
0Strong
High · 3 schools
from 9th to 45th · among 1,498 California high schools we score · spring 2025 tests
John H. Pitman High: 45th percentile, Developing
Turlock High: 38th percentile, Developing
eCademy Charter at Crane: 9th percentile, Needs Support
1Needs Support
2Developing
0Solid
0Strong
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One dot per school. Each stage is placed only among California schools at its own level. 1 of the 14 ranked schools teaches two levels, so it appears in more than one picture.
The average elementary school in Turlock Unified had 19 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 Turlock Unified score highest?
Marvin A. Dutcher Middle is highest, at the 50th percentile.
That’s higher than 50 in 100 of the 2,529 California middle schools we score (spring 2026 tests).
Highest in Turlock Unified
Each percentile compares a school with California schools at its own level.
The average middle school in Turlock Unified had 22 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 Turlock Unified score highest?
John H. Pitman High is highest, at the 45th percentile.
That’s higher than 45 in 100 of the 1,498 California high schools we score (spring 2025 tests).
Highest in Turlock Unified
Each percentile compares a school with California schools at its own level.
The average high school in Turlock Unified had 24 in 100 students chronically absent in 2025–26; the average California high school we score had 22 in 100.
2 high schools not ranked statewide
Continuation schools and alternative schools enroll students differently from a regular school, so each is compared only with schools of its kind.
Roselawn HighContinuation high school: compared only with other continuation schools
Fusion CharterAlternative school: compared only with other alternative schools
The district
Where does Turlock Unified’s money go, and what does it plan?
Turlock Unified spent $18,903 per student in the 2024–25 school year.
That’s close to the typical California district, which spent $20,491. About 69 cents of every Turlock 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
Instruction69%
Instruction support10%
Student services8%
Administration5%
Buildings & maintenance7%
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
$59.4 million
planned in its 2026–27 plan for 62 funded actions in 6 goals. That’s 22% of its $269.9 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, 155 pages), as posted to the California School Dashboard.
Where the money goes
The money is spread out. No action gets more than 12%, and the three largest, MTSS, Educational Services and Health Support, take 35% between them. The plan itself puts 84% of it toward staff.
MTSS $7.2 million
Educational Services $7.0 million
Health Support $6.5 million
59 other actions
Reading, math and catch-up help
7 of the plan’s 62 funded actions name reading, math, catch-up help or English learners in their titles.
Actions whose titles name reading, math, catch-up help or English learners
Reading $1.7 million
Math under $0.1 million
Catch-up help $9.5 million
English learners $1.9 million
An action naming two of these appears under both.
Largest of these
MTSS$7.2 million
Summer school$2.3 million
English Learners$1.9 million
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 $38.2 million in extra services for English learners, low-income students and foster youth. For 2025–26, it planned $37.1 million and estimates it spent $36.8 million, within 1% of the plan.
$36.8 million spent (estimated)$37.1 million planned
What changed
The total is $1.4 million (2%) higher than in the 2025–26 plan. The biggest change in dollars is MTSS, which went from $6.5 million to $7.2 million.
Largest cuts
21st Century Skills−$500,109
Curriculum−$325,000
Focused Student Supports−$283,081
Largest increases
MTSS+$730,517
Health Support+$718,258
Classroom Technology+$370,000
Ask: What did 21st Century Skills pay for, and what changes now that the 2026–27 plan gives it $500,109 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 2024–25Goals 1, 2 and 3
41%
42%
up 1 pt
Math, every tested grade: Proficient or Advanced in 2025–26, met or exceeded in 2024–25Goals 1, 2 and 3
28%
29%
up 1 pt
Chronically absentCounted across all the district’s students, not averaged by schoolGoals 1, 2 and 4
21 in 100
21 in 100
no change
Suspended at least onceGoals 1, 2 and 5
2.2%
2.2%
no change
Goal 6 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
MTSS · $7,185,744
Educational Services · $7,023,867
Health Support · $6,490,249
The full plan6 goals, 76 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 ($59.4 million).
Where does the money go?
55% to Goal 1, Academic Achievement & Social-Emotional Learning. 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
Every goal, in the plan’s order
Goal 1Academic Achievement & Social-Emotional Learning$32.5 million55% of action budgets
“Utilize a multi-tiered system of supports to increase academic achievement & social-emotional learning to enhance student success & well- being and promote college & career readiness among all students” p. 18 ↗
28 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $31.4 million (+$1.1 million)
Largest funded actions
MTSS$7.2 millionaction 1.2 · p. 105 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $4.4 million is state funding counted toward those services
Educational Services$7.0 millionaction 1.15 · p. 106 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $3.6 million is state funding counted toward those services
Health Support$6.5 millionaction 1.26 · p. 107 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $3.2 million is state funding counted toward those services
CTE$4.4 millionaction 1.1 · p. 105 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $4.2 million is state funding counted toward those services
Summer school$2.3 millionaction 1.4 · p. 105 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
23 more funded actions in this goal
Eligible Student Support · action 1.18 · p. 106 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$1.3 million
College/Career Counseling · action 1.16 · p. 106 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.5 million
Outdoor Education · action 1.14 · p. 106 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.4 million
BRIDGE · action 1.9 · p. 106 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.3 million
District Farm · action 1.13 · p. 106 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.2 million
Student Welfare Attendance Specialists · action 1.23 · p. 107 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.2 million
District assessments · action 1.8 · p. 105 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.2 million
Data Analyst · action 1.22 · p. 107 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.1 million
Guaranteed & Viable Learning Experiences · action 1.3 · p. 105 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.1 million
STEM · action 1.5 · p. 105 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.1 million
SPED Case Managers · action 1.20 · p. 107 ↗$0.1 million
Study Trip Transportation · action 1.11 · p. 106 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.1 million
Events & Recognitions · action 1.24 · p. 107 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $50,000 is state funding counted toward those services$0.1 million
Music · action 1.7 · p. 105 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.1 million
Data Entry · action 1.10 · p. 106 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.1 million
Universal Reading Diagnostic · action 1.21 · p. 107 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.1 million
College Program · action 1.6 · p. 105 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need servicesunder $0.1 million
Community Resources · action 1.25 · p. 107 ↗under $0.1 million
State Seal of Biliteracy · action 1.28 · p. 107 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need servicesunder $0.1 million
Student Input · action 1.27 · p. 107 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need servicesunder $0.1 million
Concurrent opportunities · action 1.12 · p. 106 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need servicesunder $0.1 million
PSAT · action 1.17 · p. 106 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need servicesunder $0.1 million
Changes from last year’s plan, same title
MTSS+$0.7 million$6.5 million → $7.2 million · p. 105 ↗
Health Support+$0.7 million$5.8 million → $6.5 million · p. 107 ↗
Summer school−$0.3 million$2.6 million → $2.3 million · p. 105 ↗
Every other line in this goal, against last year’s plan
Educational Services · $7.0 million → $7.0 million · p. 106 ↗+$0.1 million
CTE · $4.7 million → $4.4 million · p. 105 ↗−$0.2 million
Eligible Student Support · $1.3 million → $1.3 million · p. 106 ↗−$19,125
All = 73.2 points below standard. Status Level = Orange (2023 Dashboard); …
Target for year 3
All = Increase average to 25 points below standard/Green (Dashboard); …
27 more measures in the plan’s table.
Goal 2Access & Opportunity$5.3 million9% of action budgets
“Create practices & experiences to increase achievement for all students” p. 43 ↗
6 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $5.4 million (−$125,638)
Largest funded actions
Home-to-School Transportation$3.6 millionaction 2.1 · p. 107 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
HR Practices$1.2 millionaction 2.2 · p. 108 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
AP Testing$0.2 millionaction 2.4 · p. 108 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
Trainings & Materials$0.1 millionaction 2.3 · p. 108 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $100,000 is state funding counted toward those services
Focused Student Supports$0.1 millionaction 2.6 · p. 108 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
1 more funded action in this goal
Ethnic Studies · action 2.5 · p. 108 ↗under $0.1 million
Changes from last year’s plan, same title
Focused Student Supports−$283,081$392,711 → $109,630 · p. 108 ↗
HR Practices+$0.1 million$1.1 million → $1.2 million · p. 108 ↗
Home-to-School Transportation+$0.1 million$3.6 million → $3.6 million · p. 107 ↗
Every other line in this goal, against last year’s plan
AP Testing · $145,000 → $175,000 · p. 108 ↗+$30,000
All = 73.2 points below standard. Status Level = Orange (2023 Dashboard); …
Target for year 3
All = Increase average to 25 points below standard/Green (Dashboard); …
9 more measures in the plan’s table.
Goal 3Curriculum & Instruction$11.2 million19% of action budgets
“Provide guaranteed & viable learning from highly qualified teachers who use adopted materials & effective instructional practices to implement standards” p. 51 ↗
12 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $11.6 million (−$407,937)
English Learners$1.9 millionaction 3.3 · p. 108 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $1.5 million is state funding counted toward those services
Classroom Technology$1.7 millionaction 3.6 · p. 108 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
Early Literacy Specialists$1.5 millionaction 3.4 · p. 108 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
21st Century Skills · action 3.12 · p. 109 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.6 million
Professional Development · action 3.5 · p. 108 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.6 million
Professional Learning Communities · action 3.8 · p. 109 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.4 million
Teacher Induction · action 3.2 · p. 108 ↗$0.4 million
Science of Reading · action 3.11 · p. 109 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $50,000 is state funding counted toward those services$0.2 million
Highly Qualified Staff · action 3.1 · p. 108 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need servicesunder $0.1 million
State & Federal Reviews · action 3.10 · p. 109 ↗under $0.1 million
Changes from last year’s plan, same title
21st Century Skills−$0.5 million$1.1 million → $0.6 million · p. 109 ↗
Classroom Technology+$0.4 million$1.3 million → $1.7 million · p. 108 ↗
Curriculum−$0.3 million$3.1 million → $2.8 million · p. 109 ↗
Every other line in this goal, against last year’s plan
English Learners · $1.7 million → $1.9 million · p. 108 ↗+$0.2 million
Early Literacy Specialists · $1.4 million → $1.5 million · p. 108 ↗+$33,065
Technology Staff · $1.0 million → $1.0 million · p. 109 ↗+$46,277
Professional Development · $859,206 → $645,130 · p. 108 ↗−$214,076
Professional Learning Communities · $449,829 → $448,624 · p. 109 ↗−$1,205
Teacher Induction · $567,207 → $434,270 · p. 108 ↗−$132,937
Science of Reading · $50,000 → $210,000 · p. 109 ↗+$160,000
“Utilize a multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS) to increase academic achievement, social-emotional learning, and improve student behavior to enhance student success and well-being while promoting College and Career Readiness for all Roselawn High School students” p. 74 ↗
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, 13,744 students
1Hispanic or Latino61%
2White26%
3Asian7%
4Two or more races2%
5Not reported2%
6Black or African American2%
7American Indian or Alaska Native<1%
8Pacific Islander<1%
9Filipino<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 · 8,870 of 13,734 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 Turlock Unified 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, 45% of the district’s English learners moved up at least one level on the state’s English test (ELPAC), or stayed at the top (1,280 of 2,843 students). California: 47%. It counts students moving up the test’s levels, so a student can count here before becoming fluent.
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.
Which public schools in Turlock Unified rank highest?
Elementary: Walnut Elementary Education Center, 80th percentile (Strong). Middle: Marvin A. Dutcher Middle, 50th percentile (Solid). High: John H. Pitman High, 45th percentile (Developing). 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 Turlock 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 Turlock Unified good?
Turlock Unified’s 9 public elementary schools run from the 1st to the 80th percentile among the 5,726 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests). By band: 1 Strong, 2 Solid, 3 Developing and 3 Needs Support. Turlock Unified’s 3 public middle schools run from the 10th to the 50th percentile among the 2,529 California middle schools we score (spring 2026 tests). By band: 1 Solid, 1 Developing and 1 Needs Support. Turlock Unified’s 3 public high schools run from the 9th to the 45th percentile among the 1,498 California high schools we score (spring 2025 tests). By band: 2 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 Turlock Unified compare with California?
The average elementary school in Turlock Unified had 19 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 Turlock Unified had 22 in 100 students chronically absent in 2025–26; the average California middle school we score had 18 in 100. The average high school in Turlock Unified had 24 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 Turlock Unified spend per student?
Turlock Unified spent $18,903 per student in the 2024–25 school year. That’s close to the typical California district, which spent $20,491. About 69 cents of every Turlock 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 Turlock Unified’s 2026–27 spending plan?
The district’s 2026–27 spending plan puts $59.4 million into 62 funded actions in 6 goals, 22% of its $269.9 million general fund budget. Its largest goal holds $32.5 million, 55% 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 Turlock 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.