School district · Santa Clara County

Union Elementary schools

Union Elementary runs schools through 8th grade. Its 6 public elementary schools run from the 88th to the 98th 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 · 6 schools

from 88th to 98th · among 5,726 California elementary schools we score · spring 2026 tests

  • Alta Vista Elementary: 98th percentile, Strong
  • Oster Elementary: 97th percentile, Strong
  • Noddin Elementary: 97th percentile, Strong
  • Guadalupe Elementary: 96th percentile, Strong
  • Carlton Elementary: 96th percentile, Strong
  • Lietz Elementary: 88th percentile, Strong
0Needs Support
0Developing
0Solid
6Strong

Middle · 2 schools

from 92nd to 98th · among 2,529 California middle schools we score · spring 2026 tests

  • Union Middle: 98th percentile, Strong
  • Dartmouth Middle: 92nd percentile, Strong
0Needs Support
0Developing
0Solid
2Strong

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

Schools around the Union Elementary district

8 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 Union Elementary district score highest?

Alta Vista Elementary is highest, at the 98th percentile.

That’s higher than 98 in 100 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests).

Highest in the Union Elementary district

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

  • Alta Vista ElementaryLos Gatos · High ceiling · Broad base · Grade-to-grade gains
    98thStrongScope Score 83
  • Oster ElementarySan Jose · High ceiling · Broad base · Grade-to-grade gains
    97thStrongScope Score 79
  • Noddin ElementarySan Jose · High ceiling · Broad base · Grade-to-grade gains
    97thStrongScope Score 78
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Context

The average elementary school in the Union Elementary district had 5 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 Union Elementary district score highest?

Union Middle is highest, at the 98th percentile.

That’s higher than 98 in 100 California middle schools we score (spring 2026 tests).

Highest in the Union Elementary district

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

  • Union MiddleSan Jose · High ceiling · Broad base · Grade-to-grade gains
    98thStrongScope Score 84
  • Dartmouth MiddleSan Jose · Broad base
    92ndStrongScope Score 68

The district

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

The Union Elementary district spent $16,673 per student in the 2024–25 school year.

The typical California district spent $20,491. About 62 cents of every 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

  • Instruction62%
  • Instruction support12%
  • Student services11%
  • Administration7%
  • Buildings & maintenance8%

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

$8.6 million

planned in its 2026–27 plan for 26 funded actions in 5 goals. That’s 9% of its $97.3 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, 92 pages), as posted to the California School Dashboard.

Where the money goes

Three actions take 70% of the money. The plan itself puts 47% of it toward staff.

  • Maintain Facilities $3.4 million
  • Mental Health and Counseling Support $1.8 million
  • Student and Staff Devices $850,000
  • 23 other actions
Reading, math and catch-up help

7 of the plan’s 26 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 under $0.1 million
  • Math under $0.1 million
  • Catch-up help $1.0 million
  • English learners $0.4 million

An action naming two of these appears under both.

Largest of these

  • Elementary School Interventions$615,842
  • English Learner and Special Education Support$371,255
  • Middle School Interventions$263,518
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 $2.9 million in extra services for English learners, low-income students and foster youth. For 2025–26, it planned $2.8 million and estimates it spent $3.8 million, $1.0 million (35%) more than planned (our arithmetic).

What changed

The total is $1.1 million (15%) higher than in the 2025–26 plan. The biggest change in dollars is Maintain Facilities, which went from $2.4 million to $3.4 million.

Largest cuts

  • Mental Health and Counseling Support−⁠$541,794
  • Elementary School Interventions−⁠$51,197

Largest increases

  • Maintain Facilities+⁠$969,650
  • Student and Staff Devices+⁠$582,929
  • Middle School Interventions+⁠$57,256
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 275%76%up 1 pt
Chronically absentCounted across all the district’s students, not averaged by schoolGoal 16 in 1005 in 1001 fewer in 100
Suspended at least onceGoal 31.1%0.5%down 0.6 pts

Goals 4 and 5 aren’t shown because they track 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
  • Maintain Facilities · $3,354,493
  • Mental Health and Counseling Support · $1,800,216
  • Student and Staff Devices · $850,000
The full plan5 goals, 30 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 ($8.6 million).

Where does the money go?

51% 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 1Provide the appropriate conditions to support teaching and learning for all students by: recruiting, hiring…$4.4 million51% of action budgets

“Provide the appropriate conditions to support teaching and learning for all students by: recruiting, hiring and retaining a diverse group of highly qualified staff who are skilled in closing the achievement gap and in creating an enriched, social-emotionally responsive and academically rigorous future-ready learning environment for all students; maintaining facilities in good repair; and ensuring access to instructional materials and technology” p. 12 ↗

6 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $2.8 million (+⁠$1.6 million)

Largest funded actions

  1. Maintain Facilities$3.4 millionaction 1.5 · p. 52 ↗
  2. Student and Staff Devices$0.8 millionaction 1.4 · p. 52 ↗
  3. Increase Student Attendance$0.1 millionaction 1.8 · p. 52 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  4. Staff Recruitment and Retention$0.1 millionaction 1.1 · p. 52 ↗
  5. New Teacher Supportunder $0.1 millionaction 1.2 · p. 52 ↗

1 more funded action in this goal

  • Curriculum and Instructional Materials Access · action 1.3 · p. 52 ↗under $0.1 million

Changes from last year’s plan, same title

  1. Maintain Facilities+⁠$1.0 million$2.4 million → $3.4 million · p. 52 ↗
  2. Student and Staff Devices+⁠$582,929$267,071 → $850,000 · p. 52 ↗
  3. Staff Recruitment and Retention+⁠$23,655$37,834 → $61,489 · p. 52 ↗

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

  • Increase Student Attendance · $88,000 → $90,000 · p. 52 ↗+⁠$2,000
  • New Teacher Support · $36,187 → $36,187 · p. 52 ↗unchanged
  • Curriculum and Instructional Materials Access · $4,800 → $3,000 · p. 52 ↗−⁠$1,800

How the plan measures it · 11 measures · 2 quoted

  • Teacher Assignments and Credentials p. 12 ↗
    Baseline
    2023-24 100% of teachers are highly qualified and properly assigned.
    Target for year 3
    2026-27 100% of teachers are highly qualified and properly assigned.
  • School Attendance Rates p. 14 ↗
    Baseline
    2023-24 District Average Daily Attendance Rate is 96.65%
    Target for year 3
    2026-27 District Average Daily Attendance Rate will be 97.5% or higher

9 more measures in the plan’s table.

Goal 2Raise the achievement of all students, while closing achievement gaps in identified student groups, including…$1.7 million19% of action budgets

“Raise the achievement of all students, while closing achievement gaps in identified student groups, including English Learners, Long Term English Learners, low-income, foster youth and students with disabilities, through rigorous differentiated instruction that is based on state standards, is culturally responsive and develops students' Collaboration, Communication, Creativity, and Critical Thinking skills” p. 21 ↗

9 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $1.6 million (+⁠$59,153)

Largest funded actions

  1. Elementary School Interventions$615,842action 2.1 · p. 52 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  2. English Learner and Special Education Support$371,255action 2.4 · p. 53 ↗
  3. Middle School Interventions$263,518action 2.2 · p. 53 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  4. Differentiated Core Instruction (Tier 1)$263,318action 2.5 · p. 53 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  5. Content Area Committees$58,336action 2.7 · p. 53 ↗

4 more funded actions in this goal

  • Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics · action 2.6 · p. 53 ↗$30,000
  • Early Literacy and Intervention · action 2.9 · p. 53 ↗$29,739
  • Professional Development · action 2.3 · p. 53 ↗$10,000
  • Digital Citizenship, Safety and Balance of Technology Use · action 2.8 · p. 53 ↗$8,000

Changes from last year’s plan, same title

  1. Middle School Interventions+⁠$57,256$206,262 → $263,518 · p. 53 ↗
  2. Elementary School Interventions−⁠$51,197$667,039 → $615,842 · p. 52 ↗
  3. Differentiated Core Instruction (Tier 1)+⁠$33,106$230,212 → $263,318 · p. 53 ↗

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

  • English Learner and Special Education Support · $351,267 → $371,255 · p. 53 ↗+⁠$19,988
  • Content Area Committees · $58,336 → $58,336 · p. 53 ↗unchanged
  • Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics · $30,000 → $30,000 · p. 53 ↗unchanged
  • Early Literacy and Intervention · $29,739 → $29,739 · p. 53 ↗unchanged
  • Professional Development · $10,000 → $10,000 · p. 53 ↗unchanged
  • Digital Citizenship, Safety and Balance of Technology Use · $8,000 → $8,000 · p. 53 ↗unchanged

How the plan measures it · 9 measures

None of these has an all-students line we can quote; the plan’s table lists them from p. 21 ↗.

Goal 3Educate the whole child by providing integrated social-emotional, behavioral and mental health support…$2.2 million26% of action budgets

“Educate the whole child by providing integrated social-emotional, behavioral and mental health support systems to ensure that all students develop self-regulation skills, social responsibility, and respect for themselves and their school, community, and the world” p. 31 ↗

4 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $2.8 million (−⁠$538,878)

Largest funded actions

  1. Mental Health and Counseling Support$1.8 millionaction 3.2 · p. 53 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $1.2 million is state funding counted toward those services
  2. Behavior Support$0.3 millionaction 3.3 · p. 53 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  3. Professional Development$0.1 millionaction 3.4 · p. 53 ↗
  4. Social Emotional Learningunder $0.1 millionaction 3.1 · p. 53 ↗

Changes from last year’s plan, same title

  1. Mental Health and Counseling Support−⁠$0.5 million$2.3 million → $1.8 million · p. 53 ↗
  2. Behavior Support+⁠$8,664$331,208 → $339,872 · p. 53 ↗
  3. Professional Development−⁠$2,748$79,634 → $76,886 · p. 53 ↗

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

  • Social Emotional Learning · $6,999 → $6,999 · p. 53 ↗unchanged

How the plan measures it · 4 measures · 1 quoted

  • Pupil Expulsion Rates p. 32 ↗
    Baseline
    2022-23 0% of students expelled
    Target for year 3
    2025-26 0% of students Expelled

3 more measures in the plan’s table.

Goal 4Enhance parent engagement and improve communication among home, school and district stakeholders$103,1681% of action budgets

4 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $105,068 (−⁠$1,900) · p. 37 ↗

Largest funded actions

  1. Community Liaison$49,515action 4.3 · p. 54 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  2. District Wellness Coordinator$31,633action 4.4 · p. 54 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  3. Parent Education$12,020action 4.1 · p. 54 ↗
  4. Communication$10,000action 4.2 · p. 54 ↗

Changes from last year’s plan, same title

  1. Communication−⁠$4,000$14,000 → $10,000 · p. 54 ↗
  2. District Wellness Coordinator+⁠$1,819$29,814 → $31,633 · p. 54 ↗
  3. Community Liaison+⁠$1,188$48,327 → $49,515 · p. 54 ↗

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

  • Parent Education · $12,927 → $12,020 · p. 54 ↗−⁠$907

How the plan measures it · 4 measures · 1 quoted

  • Translation Service Usage p. 37 ↗
    Baseline
    2023-24 300 calls
    Target for year 3
    2026-27 450 calls

3 more measures in the plan’s table.

Goal 5Address the underlying systemic conditions leading to the significantly disproportionate identification of…$197,8292% of action budgets

“Address the underlying systemic conditions leading to the significantly disproportionate identification of Hispanic students for special education assessment under Specific Learning Disability (SLD)” p. 42 ↗

3 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $196,355 (+⁠$1,474)

Largest funded actions

  1. Partially fund a CCEIS/​MTSS TOSA for the 2024-25 School Year$103,653action 5.2 · p. 54 ↗
  2. Continued Professional Development and follow up coaching to support current LCAP, CCEIS and District Initiatives$71,064action 5.3 · p. 54 ↗
  3. English Learner Committee$23,112action 5.1 · p. 54 ↗

Changes from last year’s plan, same title

  1. Partially fund a CCEIS/​MTSS TOSA for the 2024-25 School Year+⁠$15,296$88,357 → $103,653 · p. 54 ↗
  2. Continued Professional Development and follow up coaching to support current LCAP, CCEIS and District Initiatives−⁠$10,911$81,975 → $71,064 · p. 54 ↗
  3. English Learner Committee−⁠$2,911$26,023 → $23,112 · p. 54 ↗

How the plan measures it · 2 measures

None of these has an all-students line we can quote; the plan’s table lists them from p. 42 ↗.

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, 5,379 students
1. Asian: 42%2. White: 30%3. Hispanic or Latino: 17%4. Two or more races: 8%5. Filipino: 1%6. Black or African American: <1%7. Pacific Islander: <1%8. Not reported: <1%9. American Indian or Alaska Native: <1%Student mix2024–25
  1. Asian42%
  2. White30%
  3. Hispanic or Latino17%
  4. Two or more races8%
  5. Filipino1%
  6. Black or African American<1%
  7. Pacific Islander<1%
  8. Not reported<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

12%

Across California, 63% of students qualify.

2024–25 · 631 of 5,376 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?

Union 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, 54% of the district’s English learners moved up at least one level on the state’s English test (ELPAC), or stayed at the top (247 of 456 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 Union Elementary district rank highest?

Elementary: Alta Vista Elementary, 98th percentile (Strong). Middle: Union Middle, 98th 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 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.
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Are the public schools in the Union Elementary district good?

Union Elementary’s 6 public elementary schools run from the 88th to the 98th percentile among the 5,726 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests). By band: 6 Strong. Union Elementary’s 2 public middle schools run from the 92nd to the 98th percentile among the 2,529 California middle schools we score (spring 2026 tests). By band: 2 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 Union Elementary district compare with California?

The average elementary school in the Union Elementary district had 5 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 Union Elementary district spend per student?

The Union Elementary district spent $16,673 per student in the 2024–25 school year. The typical California district spent $20,491. About 62 cents of every 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 Union Elementary district’s 2026–27 spending plan?

The district’s 2026–27 spending plan puts $8.6 million into 26 funded actions in 5 goals, 9% of its $97.3 million general fund budget. Its largest goal holds $4.4 million, 51% 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 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.

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