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Walnut Valley Unified schools

Walnut Valley Unified’s 9 public elementary schools all sit between the 72nd and the 97th percentile among the 5,726 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests).

Elementary · 9 schools

from 72nd to 97th · among 5,726 California elementary schools we score · spring 2026 tests

  • Leonard G. Westhoff Elementary: 97th percentile, Strong
  • Maple Hill Elementary: 95th percentile, Strong
  • Quail Summit Elementary: 94th percentile, Strong
  • Walnut Elementary: 93rd percentile, Strong
  • Collegewood Elementary: 91st percentile, Strong
  • Evergreen Elementary: 91st percentile, Strong
  • Castle Rock Elementary: 89th percentile, Strong
  • Cyrus J. Morris Elementary: 88th percentile, Strong
  • Vejar Elementary: 72nd percentile, Solid
0Needs Support
0Developing
1Solid
8Strong

One dot per school.

Middle and high school pictures

Middle · 3 schools

from 93rd to 97th · among 2,529 California middle schools we score · spring 2026 tests

  • Chaparral Middle: 97th percentile, Strong
  • South Pointe Middle: 97th percentile, Strong
  • Suzanne Middle: 93rd percentile, Strong
0Needs Support
0Developing
0Solid
3Strong

High · 2 schools

at 93rd · among 1,498 California high schools we score · spring 2025 tests

  • Walnut High: 93rd percentile, Strong
  • Diamond Bar High: 93rd 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 Walnut Valley Unified

14 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 Walnut Valley Unified score highest?

Leonard G. Westhoff Elementary is highest, at the 97th percentile.

That’s higher than 97 in 100 of the 5,726 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests).

Highest in Walnut Valley Unified

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

Show the other 6 elementary schools
Context

The average elementary school in Walnut Valley Unified 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 Walnut Valley Unified score highest?

Chaparral Middle and South Pointe Middle are highest, both at the 97th percentile.

That’s higher than 97 in 100 of the 2,529 California middle schools we score (spring 2026 tests).

Highest in Walnut Valley Unified

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

Context

The average middle school in Walnut Valley Unified had 4 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 Walnut Valley Unified score highest?

Walnut High and Diamond Bar High are highest, both at the 93rd percentile.

That’s higher than 93 in 100 of the 1,498 California high schools we score (spring 2025 tests).

Highest in Walnut Valley Unified

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

The district

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

Walnut Valley Unified spent $15,388 per student in the 2024–25 school year.

The typical California district spent $20,491. About 59 cents of every Walnut 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

  • Instruction59%
  • Instruction support10%
  • Student services13%
  • Administration6%
  • Buildings & maintenance11%
  • 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

$224.6 million

planned in its 2026–27 plan for 28 funded actions in 3 goals. That’s 95% of its $237.1 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, 153 pages), as posted to the California School Dashboard.

Where the money goes

Three actions take 79% of the money. The plan itself puts 84% of it toward staff.

  • Broad Range of Course Study $127.1 million
  • School Facilities $27.2 million
  • Professional Development and Academic Support Focused on the Whole Child $22.7 million
  • 25 other actions
Reading, math and catch-up help

5 of the plan’s 28 funded actions name reading, math, catch-up help or English learners in their titles.

Actions whose titles name catch-up help or English learners
  • Catch-up help $30.8 million
  • English learners $0.7 million

Largest of these

  • Professional Development and Academic Support Focused on the Whole Child$22.7 million
  • Mental Health Services and Interventions$5.0 million
  • Intervention Services$3.1 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 $11.1 million in extra services for English learners, low-income students and foster youth. For 2025–26, it planned $10.6 million and estimates it spent $10.8 million, $0.2 million (1%) more than planned (our arithmetic).

What changed

The total is $15.7 million (8%) higher than in the 2025–26 plan. The biggest change in dollars is School Facilities, which went from $17.4 million to $27.2 million.

Largest cuts

  • Highly qualified teachers, administrators, and support staff−⁠$1.8 million
  • Equity and Access−⁠$1.6 million
  • Access to standards aligned instructional materials−⁠$1.0 million

Largest increases

  • School Facilities+⁠$9.9 million
  • Professional Development and Academic Support Focused on the Whole Child+⁠$3.3 million
  • Broad Range of Course Study+⁠$2.6 million

Ask: What did Highly qualified teachers, administrators, and support staff pay for, and what changes now that the 2026–27 plan gives it $1.8 million 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 2 · Achievement76%76%no change
Math, every tested grade: Proficient or Advanced in 2025–26, met or exceeded in 2024–25Goal 2 · Achievement73%73%no change
Chronically absentCounted across all the district’s students, not averaged by schoolGoal 1 · Engagement7 in 1006 in 1001 fewer in 100
Suspended at least onceGoal 3 · Safety and Wellness0.6%0.6%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
  • Broad Range of Course Study · $127,050,981
  • School Facilities · $27,228,265
  • Professional Development and Academic Support Focused on the Whole Child · $22,695,101
The full plan3 goals, 29 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 ($224.6 million).

Where does the money go?

78% to Goal 2, Achievement. 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.

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 1Engagement$5.3 million2% of action budgets

“Student Voice and Connectedness to School and Community Walnut Valley Unified School District will ensure access and equity for all students’ engagement with the school and community by increasing student efficacy, students’ voices, and active participation so that all students will graduate from high school as college and career-ready” p. 19 ↗

3 funded actions · reworded since the 2025–26 plan

Largest funded actions

  1. Attendance and Engagement$5.1 millionaction 1.1 · p. 112 ↗
  2. Attendance Support for Unduplicated Pupils$0.2 millionaction 1.4 · p. 112 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  3. Family and Educational Partners Involvementunder $0.1 millionaction 1.6 · p. 112 ↗

Changes from last year’s plan, same title

  1. Attendance and Engagement+⁠$0.3 million$4.7 million → $5.1 million · p. 112 ↗
  2. Attendance Support for Unduplicated Pupils+⁠$122,043$60,161 → $182,204 · p. 112 ↗
  3. Family and Educational Partners Involvement−⁠$18,200$50,000 → $31,800 · p. 112 ↗

How the plan measures it · 5 measures

None of these has an all-students line we can quote; the plan’s table lists them from p. 19 ↗.

Goal 2Achievement$175.4 million78% of action budgets

“Access, Student Achievement, College and Career-Readiness Walnut Valley Unified School District will ensure that all students are academically prepared and empowered to be college and career-ready by providing access to a rich and rigorous curriculum that increases student achievement, critical thinking skills, digital citizenship, and creativity in all subject areas” p. 31 ↗

18 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $169.0 million (+⁠$6.4 million)

Largest funded actions

  1. Broad Range of Course Study$127.1 millionaction 2.8 · p. 113 ↗
  2. Professional Development and Academic Support Focused on the Whole Child$22.7 millionaction 2.1 · p. 112 ↗
  3. Infrastructure and Instructional Technology Support$3.9 millionaction 2.4 · p. 112 ↗
  4. Student Support for IEP Goals$3.5 millionaction 2.16 · p. 113 ↗
  5. Access to standards aligned instructional materials$3.5 millionaction 2.14 · p. 113 ↗

13 more funded actions in this goal

  • Intervention Services · action 2.11 · p. 113 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $2.8 million is state funding counted toward those services$3.1 million
  • Induction Program · action 2.12 · p. 113 ↗$2.7 million
  • Visual and Performing Arts · action 2.7 · p. 113 ↗$2.4 million
  • Elementary Support · action 2.10 · p. 113 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$1.6 million
  • Equity and Access · action 2.5 · p. 112 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$1.1 million
  • Academic Professional Development to Close the Achievement Gap · action 2.2 · p. 112 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $504,943 is state funding counted toward those services$0.9 million
  • Districtwide Data Sessions · action 2.3 · p. 112 ↗$0.9 million
  • Highly qualified teachers, administrators, and support staff · action 2.13 · p. 113 ↗$0.8 million
  • English Language Development (ELD) Support · action 2.6 · p. 112 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.6 million
  • High School Support · action 2.15 · p. 113 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.5 million
  • Outreach to Parents of English Learner Students · action 2.18 · p. 113 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.1 million
  • TK-12 Collaboration · action 2.9 · p. 113 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.1 million
  • Parent Education and Parent Meetings · action 2.17 · p. 113 ↗under $0.1 million

Changes from last year’s plan, same title

  1. Professional Development and Academic Support Focused on the Whole Child+⁠$3.3 million$19.4 million → $22.7 million · p. 112 ↗
  2. Broad Range of Course Study+⁠$2.6 million$124.5 million → $127.1 million · p. 113 ↗
  3. Induction Program+⁠$2.0 million$0.7 million → $2.7 million · p. 113 ↗

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

  • Infrastructure and Instructional Technology Support · $3.8 million → $3.9 million · p. 112 ↗+⁠$0.1 million
  • Student Support for IEP Goals · $3.0 million → $3.5 million · p. 113 ↗+⁠$0.5 million
  • Access to standards aligned instructional materials · $4.5 million → $3.5 million · p. 113 ↗−⁠$1.0 million
  • Intervention Services · $2.1 million → $3.1 million · p. 113 ↗+⁠$1.0 million
  • Visual and Performing Arts · $1.8 million → $2.4 million · p. 113 ↗+⁠$0.6 million
  • Elementary Support · $1.5 million → $1.6 million · p. 113 ↗+⁠$0.2 million
  • Equity and Access · $2.7 million → $1.1 million · p. 112 ↗−⁠$1.6 million
  • Academic Professional Development to Close the Achievement Gap · $966,677 → $929,943 · p. 112 ↗−⁠$36,734
  • Districtwide Data Sessions · $924,067 → $883,078 · p. 112 ↗−⁠$40,989
  • Highly qualified teachers, administrators, and support staff · $2.6 million → $0.8 million · p. 113 ↗−⁠$1.8 million
  • English Language Development (ELD) Support · $45,000 → $593,093 · p. 112 ↗+⁠$548,093
  • High School Support · $391,560 → $482,744 · p. 113 ↗+⁠$91,184
  • Outreach to Parents of English Learner Students · $4,000 → $65,173 · p. 113 ↗+⁠$61,173
  • TK-12 Collaboration · $47,000 → $50,233 · p. 113 ↗+⁠$3,233
  • Parent Education and Parent Meetings · $20,515 → $10,210 · p. 113 ↗−⁠$10,305

How the plan measures it · 20 measures

None of these has an all-students line we can quote; the plan’s table lists them from p. 31 ↗.

Goal 3Safety and Wellness$43.9 million20% of action budgets

“The District is committed to cultivating a safe, respectful, equitable, and inclusive learning environment, recognizing its paramount importance to student achievement. The District endeavors to nurture a culture that prioritizes the emotional well-being, physical safety, and overall wellness of its students, staff, and families. Through proactive measures and ongoing collaboration with staff, students, and parents/​guardians, Walnut Valley strives to ensure that every member of the educational community feels supported, valued, and empowered to thrive academically, socially, and emotionally” p. 70 ↗

7 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $35.1 million (+⁠$8.9 million)

Largest funded actions

  1. School Facilities$27.2 millionaction 3.1 · p. 113 ↗
  2. Mental Health Services and Interventions$5.0 millionaction 3.12 · p. 114 ↗
  3. Increased Counseling Services$4.9 millionaction 3.7 · p. 114 ↗
  4. Counseling Services$3.5 millionaction 3.3 · p. 114 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  5. Wellness$2.3 millionaction 3.6 · p. 114 ↗

2 more funded actions in this goal

  • Progressive Discipline / Behavior Support · action 3.4 · p. 114 ↗$0.9 million
  • Social Emotional Supports · action 3.5 · p. 114 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.1 million

Changes from last year’s plan, same title

  1. School Facilities+⁠$9.9 million$17.4 million → $27.2 million · p. 113 ↗
  2. Progressive Discipline / Behavior Support−⁠$0.7 million$1.6 million → $0.9 million · p. 114 ↗
  3. Increased Counseling Services−⁠$0.3 million$5.2 million → $4.9 million · p. 114 ↗

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

  • Mental Health Services and Interventions · $5.1 million → $5.0 million · p. 114 ↗−⁠$0.1 million
  • Counseling Services · $3.4 million → $3.5 million · p. 114 ↗+⁠$0.1 million
  • Wellness · $2.1 million → $2.3 million · p. 114 ↗+⁠$0.2 million
  • Social Emotional Supports · $254,735 → $133,447 · p. 114 ↗−⁠$121,288

How the plan measures it · 4 measures

None of these has an all-students line we can quote; the plan’s table lists them from p. 70 ↗.

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, 14,004 students
1. Asian: 64%2. Hispanic or Latino: 21%3. Filipino: 5%4. Two or more races: 4%5. White: 3%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. Asian64%
  2. Hispanic or Latino21%
  3. Filipino5%
  4. Two or more races4%
  5. White3%
  6. Black or African American1%
  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

25%

Across California, 63% of students qualify.

2024–25 · 3,469 of 13,992 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 Walnut 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, 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 (1,020 of 1,600 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 Walnut Valley Unified rank highest?

Elementary: Leonard G. Westhoff Elementary, 97th percentile (Strong). Middle: 2 schools at the 97th percentile (Strong): Chaparral Middle and South Pointe Middle. High: 2 schools at the 93rd percentile (Strong): Walnut High and Diamond Bar High. 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 Walnut 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 Walnut Valley Unified good?

Walnut Valley Unified’s 9 public elementary schools run from the 72nd to the 97th percentile among the 5,726 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests). By band: 8 Strong and 1 Solid. Walnut Valley Unified’s 3 public middle schools run from the 93rd to the 97th percentile among the 2,529 California middle schools we score (spring 2026 tests). By band: 3 Strong. Walnut Valley Unified’s 2 public high schools are all at the 93rd percentile among the 1,498 California high schools we score (spring 2025 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 Walnut Valley Unified compare with California?

The average elementary school in Walnut Valley Unified 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. The average middle school in Walnut Valley Unified had 4 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 Walnut Valley Unified spend per student?

Walnut Valley Unified spent $15,388 per student in the 2024–25 school year. The typical California district spent $20,491. About 59 cents of every Walnut 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 Walnut Valley Unified’s 2026–27 spending plan?

The district’s 2026–27 spending plan puts $224.6 million into 28 funded actions in 3 goals, 95% of its $237.1 million general fund budget. Its largest goal holds $175.4 million, 78% 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 Walnut 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.