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Western Placer Unified schools

Western Placer Unified’s 9 public elementary schools run from the 29th to the 89th percentile among the 5,726 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests). They sit in three of the four bands: Strong, Solid and Developing.

Elementary · 9 schools

from 29th to 89th · among 5,726 California elementary schools we score · spring 2026 tests

  • Twelve Bridges Elementary: 89th percentile, Strong
  • Scott M. Leaman: 74th percentile, Solid
  • Horizon Charter: 65th percentile, Solid
  • Lincoln Crossing Elementary: 60th percentile, Solid
  • Carlin C. Coppin Elementary: 58th percentile, Solid
  • John Adams Academy - Lincoln: 54th percentile, Solid
  • Foskett Ranch Elementary: 52nd percentile, Solid
  • First Street Elementary: 31st percentile, Developing
  • Creekside Oaks Elementary: 29th percentile, Developing
0Needs Support
2Developing
6Solid
1Strong

One dot per school.

Middle and high school pictures

Middle · 5 schools

from 30th to 83rd · among 2,529 California middle schools we score · spring 2026 tests

  • Twelve Bridges Middle: 83rd percentile, Strong
  • Horizon Charter: 81st percentile, Strong
  • John Adams Academy - Lincoln: 56th percentile, Solid
  • ATLAS Learning Academy: 40th percentile, Developing
  • Glen Edwards Middle: 30th percentile, Developing
0Needs Support
2Developing
1Solid
2Strong

High · 4 schools

from 39th to 67th · among 1,498 California high schools we score · spring 2025 tests

  • John Adams Academy - Lincoln: 67th percentile, Solid
  • Twelve Bridges High: 64th percentile, Solid
  • Lincoln High: 49th percentile, Developing
  • Horizon Charter: 39th percentile, Developing
0Needs Support
2Developing
2Solid
0Strong

One dot per school. Each stage is placed only among California schools at its own level. 2 of the 14 ranked schools teach all three levels, so they appear in more than one picture.

  • 14 ranked schools
  • 1 school not ranked statewide

Schools around Western Placer Unified

15 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 Western Placer Unified score highest?

Twelve Bridges Elementary is highest, at the 89th percentile.

That’s higher than 89 in 100 of the 5,726 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests).

Highest in Western Placer 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 Western Placer Unified had 11 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 Western Placer Unified score highest?

Twelve Bridges Middle is highest, at the 83rd percentile.

That’s higher than 83 in 100 of the 2,529 California middle schools we score (spring 2026 tests).

Highest in Western Placer Unified

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

Show the other 2 middle schools
Context

The average middle school in Western Placer Unified had 9 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 Western Placer Unified score highest?

John Adams Academy - Lincoln is highest, at the 67th percentile.

That’s higher than 67 in 100 of the 1,498 California high schools we score (spring 2025 tests).

Highest in Western Placer Unified

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

Show the other 1 high school
  • Horizon CharterCharter school. Check how it admits students.
    39thDevelopingScope Score 52
Context

The average high school in Western Placer Unified had 12 in 100 students chronically absent in 2025–26; the average California high school we score had 22 in 100.

1 high school not ranked statewide

The district

Where does Western Placer Unified’s money go, and what does it plan?

Western Placer Unified spent $15,873 per student in the 2024–25 school year.

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

  • Instruction62%
  • Instruction support11%
  • Student services8%
  • Administration8%
  • Buildings & maintenance9%
  • Other2%

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

$87.7 million

planned in its 2026–27 plan for 24 funded actions in 2 goals. That’s 64% of its $136.2 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, 140 pages), as posted to the California School Dashboard.

Where the money goes

Three actions take 77% of the money. The plan itself puts 86% of it toward staff.

  • Highly Qualified Administrators, Teachers, and Instructional Support Staff $53.8 million
  • School Safety $8.3 million
  • Access to a Broad Course of Study & Standards Aligned Instructional Materials $5.6 million
  • 21 other actions
Reading, math and catch-up help

5 of the plan’s 24 funded actions name reading, math, catch-up help or English learners in their titles.

Actions whose titles name reading, catch-up help or English learners
  • Reading $0.1 million
  • Catch-up help $4.1 million
  • English learners $2.9 million

Largest of these

  • Academic Interventions$3.0 million
  • Dual Language Immersion Program$2.0 million
  • Academic Support Courses$1.1 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 $11.2 million in extra services for English learners, low-income students and foster youth. For 2025–26, it planned $11.0 million and estimates it spent $10.2 million, $0.8 million (7%) less than planned (our arithmetic).

Ask: Why did estimated spending on these services come in $0.8 million under the 2025–26 plan, and where does that money go in 2026–27?

What changed

The total is $5.0 million (6%) higher than in the 2025–26 plan. The biggest change in dollars is Highly Qualified Administrators, Teachers, and Instructional Support Staff, which went from $50.2 million to $53.8 million.

Largest cuts

  • Dual Language Immersion Program−⁠$266,007

Largest increases

  • Highly Qualified Administrators, Teachers, and Instructional Support Staff+⁠$3.6 million
  • Access to a Broad Course of Study & Standards Aligned Instructional Materials+⁠$847,013
  • Mental Health Support+⁠$388,045
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 156%53%down 3 pts
Math, every tested grade: Proficient or Advanced in 2025–26, met or exceeded in 2024–25Goal 146%44%down 2 pts
Chronically absentCounted across all the district’s students, not averaged by schoolGoal 215 in 10013 in 1002 fewer in 100
Suspended at least onceGoal 22.3%2.2%down 0.1 pts

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
  • Highly Qualified Administrators, Teachers, and Instructional Support Staff · $53,785,154
  • School Safety · $8,324,769
  • Access to a Broad Course of Study & Standards Aligned Instructional Materials · $5,589,239
The full plan2 goals, 49 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 ($87.7 million).

Where does the money go?

86% 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 1All students will graduate from high school college and career ready$75.6 million86% of action budgets

14 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $70.7 million (+⁠$4.9 million) · p. 25 ↗

Largest funded actions

  1. Highly Qualified Administrators, Teachers, and Instructional Support Staff$53.8 millionaction 1.1 · p. 97 ↗
  2. Access to a Broad Course of Study & Standards Aligned Instructional Materials$5.6 millionaction 1.3 · p. 97 ↗
  3. Instructional Technology$3.1 millionaction 1.7 · p. 98 ↗
  4. Academic Interventions$3.0 millionaction 1.9 · p. 98 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $1.3 million is state funding counted toward those services
  5. Career Technical Education (CTE)$2.4 millionaction 1.6 · p. 98 ↗

9 more funded actions in this goal

  • Dual Language Immersion Program · action 1.4 · p. 97 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$2.0 million
  • Staff Effectiveness in Supporting Students Academic Success · action 1.2 · p. 97 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $1.3 million is state funding counted toward those services$1.6 million
  • Assessing & Monitoring Student Progress · action 1.8 · p. 98 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $869,461 is state funding counted toward those services$1.3 million
  • Academic Support Courses · action 1.5 · p. 97 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$1.1 million
  • English Learner Support · action 1.10 · p. 98 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $685,696 is state funding counted toward those services$0.8 million
  • LCFF Supplemental Allocation to School Sites for Site-Based Contributing Services · action 1.13 · p. 98 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.6 million
  • Early Childhood Literacy · action 1.14 · p. 98 ↗$0.1 million
  • Homeless/​Foster Youth Support · action 1.11 · p. 98 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.1 million
  • Additional Academic Counseling Support · action 1.12 · p. 98 ↗$0.1 million

Changes from last year’s plan, same title

  1. Highly Qualified Administrators, Teachers, and Instructional Support Staff+⁠$3.6 million$50.2 million → $53.8 million · p. 97 ↗
  2. Access to a Broad Course of Study & Standards Aligned Instructional Materials+⁠$0.8 million$4.7 million → $5.6 million · p. 97 ↗
  3. Dual Language Immersion Program−⁠$0.3 million$2.3 million → $2.0 million · p. 97 ↗

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

  • Instructional Technology · $2.9 million → $3.1 million · p. 98 ↗+⁠$0.2 million
  • Academic Interventions · $3.2 million → $3.0 million · p. 98 ↗−⁠$0.1 million
  • Career Technical Education (CTE) · $2.3 million → $2.4 million · p. 98 ↗+⁠$0.1 million
  • Staff Effectiveness in Supporting Students Academic Success · $1.5 million → $1.6 million · p. 97 ↗+⁠$0.1 million
  • Assessing & Monitoring Student Progress · $1.1 million → $1.3 million · p. 98 ↗+⁠$0.2 million
  • Academic Support Courses · $1.2 million → $1.1 million · p. 97 ↗−⁠$0.1 million
  • English Learner Support · $622,465 → $840,844 · p. 98 ↗+⁠$218,379
  • LCFF Supplemental Allocation to School Sites for Site-Based Contributing Services · $384,633 → $558,399 · p. 98 ↗+⁠$173,766
  • Early Childhood Literacy · $131,023 → $131,023 · p. 98 ↗unchanged
  • Homeless/​Foster Youth Support · $104,322 → $100,302 · p. 98 ↗−⁠$4,020
  • Additional Academic Counseling Support · $95,619 → $95,619 · p. 98 ↗unchanged

How the plan measures it · 29 measures · 3 quoted

  • CA Dashboard English Language Arts Indicator (all students) p. 26 ↗
    Baseline
    All = 12.7 points above standard for all students
    Target for year 3
    32.3 Point above standard
  • CAASPP for ELA (all students) p. 27 ↗
    Baseline
    56.73% of all students met or exceeded
    Target for year 3
    72% of all students met or exceeded
  • CAASPP for Math (all students) p. 29 ↗
    Baseline
    44.59% of all students met or exceeded state standards
    Target for year 3
    59.59% of all students met or exceeded state standards

26 more measures in the plan’s table.

Goal 2All students and their families will be actively engaged in learning and their school communities$12.0 million14% of action budgets

10 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $11.9 million (+⁠$104,773) · p. 51 ↗

Largest funded actions

  1. School Safety$8.3 millionaction 2.2 · p. 99 ↗
  2. Youth & Parent Engagement$0.9 millionaction 2.3 · p. 99 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  3. Mental Health Support$0.8 millionaction 2.4 · p. 99 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $473,318 is state funding counted toward those services
  4. Staff Effectiveness in Supporting Physical, Social-Emotional & Cultural Safety$0.6 millionaction 2.1 · p. 99 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services · of which $564,502 is state funding counted toward those services
  5. Wellness Centers$0.5 millionaction 2.10 · p. 100 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services

5 more funded actions in this goal

  • Transportation · action 2.6 · p. 99 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.2 million
  • Attendance · action 2.8 · p. 99 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.2 million
  • LCFF Supplemental Allocation to School Sites for Site-Based Contributing Services · action 2.7 · p. 99 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.2 million
  • Student Behavior Supports · action 2.9 · p. 99 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services$0.2 million
  • Homeless/​Foster Youth Support · action 2.5 · p. 99 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need servicesunder $0.1 million

Changes from last year’s plan, same title

  1. Mental Health Support+⁠$388,045$404,547 → $792,592 · p. 99 ↗
  2. LCFF Supplemental Allocation to School Sites for Site-Based Contributing Services−⁠$167,040$364,633 → $197,593 · p. 99 ↗
  3. Wellness Centers+⁠$119,156$383,000 → $502,156 · p. 100 ↗

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

  • School Safety · $8.4 million → $8.3 million · p. 99 ↗−⁠$40,040
  • Youth & Parent Engagement · $877,235 → $883,413 · p. 99 ↗+⁠$6,178
  • Staff Effectiveness in Supporting Physical, Social-Emotional & Cultural Safety · $710,678 → $631,576 · p. 99 ↗−⁠$79,102
  • Transportation · $284,175 → $247,799 · p. 99 ↗−⁠$36,376
  • Attendance · $269,224 → $230,805 · p. 99 ↗−⁠$38,419
  • Student Behavior Supports · $236,593 → $189,610 · p. 99 ↗−⁠$46,983
  • Homeless/​Foster Youth Support · $42,218 → $41,572 · p. 99 ↗−⁠$646

How the plan measures it · 20 measures · 3 quoted

  • Chronic Absenteeism Rate (all students) p. 52 ↗
    Baseline
    Total students chronic absenteeism rate for 2022 – 2023 school year was 18.8%
    Target for year 3
    Total students chronic absenteeism target rate 9%
  • Suspension Rate (all students) p. 52 ↗
    Baseline
    Total students suspended for at least one day was 2.8% for 2022 – 2023 school year
    Target for year 3
    Total students suspended for at least on day = 1.4%
  • Expulsion Rate (all students) p. 53 ↗
    Baseline
    Total students expelled in 2022 – 2023 school year = 14
    Target for year 3
    Total students expelled = 5

17 more measures in the plan’s table.

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, 11,201 students
1. White: 51%2. Hispanic or Latino: 30%3. Two or more races: 8%4. Asian: 4%5. Black or African American: 2%6. Filipino: 2%7. Not reported: 2%8. Pacific Islander: <1%9. American Indian or Alaska Native: <1%Student mix2024–25
  1. White51%
  2. Hispanic or Latino30%
  3. Two or more races8%
  4. Asian4%
  5. Black or African American2%
  6. Filipino2%
  7. Not reported2%
  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. Rounded labels may not total 100%; segments use the original shares.

Free or reduced-price meals

35%

Across California, 63% of students qualify.

2024–25 · 3,918 of 11,179 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 Western Placer 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, 51% of the district’s English learners moved up at least one level on the state’s English test (ELPAC), or stayed at the top (287 of 561 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

Phoenix High (Continuation) (Most intensive support, graduation rate)

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.

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Common questions

Which public schools in Western Placer Unified rank highest?

Elementary: Twelve Bridges Elementary, 89th percentile (Strong). Middle: Twelve Bridges Middle, 83rd percentile (Strong). High: John Adams Academy - Lincoln, 67th percentile (Solid). 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 Western Placer 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 Western Placer Unified good?

Western Placer Unified’s 9 public elementary schools run from the 29th to the 89th percentile among the 5,726 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests). By band: 1 Strong, 6 Solid and 2 Developing. Western Placer Unified’s 5 public middle schools run from the 30th to the 83rd percentile among the 2,529 California middle schools we score (spring 2026 tests). By band: 2 Strong, 1 Solid and 2 Developing. Western Placer Unified’s 4 public high schools run from the 39th to the 67th percentile among the 1,498 California high schools we score (spring 2025 tests). By band: 2 Solid and 2 Developing. 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 Western Placer Unified compare with California?

The average elementary school in Western Placer Unified had 11 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 Western Placer Unified had 9 in 100 students chronically absent in 2025–26; the average California middle school we score had 18 in 100. The average high school in Western Placer Unified had 12 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 Western Placer Unified spend per student?

Western Placer Unified spent $15,873 per student in the 2024–25 school year. The typical California district spent $20,491. About 62 cents of every Western Placer 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 Western Placer Unified’s 2026–27 spending plan?

The district’s 2026–27 spending plan puts $87.7 million into 24 funded actions in 2 goals, 64% of its $136.2 million general fund budget. Its largest goal holds $75.6 million, 86% 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 Western Placer 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.