District overview
Alexander Valley Union Elementary School District
Funding structure, how it compares to peers, and where major projects stand.
How does this single-school district fund its K-6 program?
Alexander Valley is a community-funded district, so local property-tax collections exceed its state formula entitlement and directly shape its budget outlook. One elected five-member Board of Trustees governs Alexander Valley Elementary and employs a superintendent who also serves as principal.
Property-tax forecasts matter
Board packets repeatedly track assessed-value growth because changes flow directly into revenue and labor negotiations for this community-funded district.
One board governs one school
Districtwide curriculum, facilities, enrollment, and staffing decisions all directly affect the same K-6 campus.
Interdistrict enrollment fills classes
The district sets class-size and capacity rules for transfer students while reserving space for resident students; the website says students come from 58 ZIP codes.
Enrollment is the clearest current pressure
The superintendent's final 2025-26 update reported about 20% fewer district students, without stating the exact count or cause.
The June budget discussion projected a deficit below $50,000 for 2026-27 and described that result as encouraging, so the current record does not establish an immediate fiscal crisis.
Where the district stands
October 13, 2025 packet; later minutes report a roughly 20% decline in district students without an exact year-end count.
NCES identifies one public K-6 school.
Context calculation: $3,125,880 of 2026-27 general-fund expenditures divided by 117 students reported in October 2025. It includes districtwide costs and is not a classroom allocation.
Thirteen board packets and one public-hearing notice in the trailing-year archive.
Major projects
K-6 unified writing curriculum
Adopted and being implementedTeachers adopted Simplify Writing as a common K-6 supplement to the existing English-language arts program.
- Superintendent reported the K-6 teaching team's adoption
- Faculty reported students were using and enjoying the new writing program
Funding
District instructional-program spending
The packet does not state a purchase amount.
Eureka Math pilot
Grades 2 and 5 pilot scheduled for fall 2026Two grades will test Eureka Math Unit 1 and provide feedback before a possible broader curriculum adoption.
- Pilot announced for the coming fall
- 2026-27 school year begins
Funding
District curriculum-adoption reserve
The 2026-27 budget reserves $40,000 for curriculum adoption, but the packet does not assign that full amount to this pilot.
Summer 2026 campus repairs
Track and classroom HVAC work completedThe district completed track restoration and installed a replacement split HVAC system in the second-grade classroom; limited roof repairs were intended to extend the existing roof's life.
- HVAC and roof proposals brought to the board
- Packet reports track restoration and Grade 2 HVAC complete
Funding
District facilities funds
Planning materials listed $26,500 for the HVAC project and $20,000 for roof repairs.
Identity and governance are based on NCES, the California Department of Education, and official district pages. The recent record covers every packet and public-hearing notice exposed by the district's board archive from August 13, 2025 through August 13, 2026, reviewed chronologically from the stored official PDFs.
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