District overview
Antioch Unified School District
How AUSD is funded, governed, and responding to its fiscal challenge.
What is shaping the district now?
AUSD is governed by an elected Board of Education and funded primarily through California's Local Control Funding Formula, which is sensitive to enrollment and daily attendance. Its March 2026 second-interim presentation reports a qualified certification and assumes substantial reductions or other adjustments to preserve the minimum unrestricted reserve.
District scale
The budget presentation uses 15,159 actual enrollment and projects attendance at 90.32%. Every attendance-percentage point represents about $1.5 million of earned or lost revenue.
Budget pressure
The March presentation estimates a $32 million adjustment to maintain fiscal balance and assumes $31.5 million of 2026-27 budget adjustments.
Who decides
The elected Board adopts policy and the budget; the Contra Costa County Office of Education reviews the district's fiscal certification.
County oversight
The district says the county downgraded its first interim to qualified and that continued fiscal-solvency work is necessary.
A qualified certification signals that the district may not meet its obligations without corrective action; it is not a finding that the district is currently insolvent.
Where the district stands
The presentation distinguishes enrollment from attendance, which drives LCFF revenue.
Second-interim budget total across unrestricted and restricted General Fund activity.
Context calculation: $343.954 million divided by 15,159 students. This is districtwide General Fund spending, not a school-site allocation.
Estimated adjustment needed at second interim to maintain fiscal balance.
Major projects
Fiscal stability plan
Qualified certification; reductions and revenue options under developmentThe district is developing recurring reductions and revenue options intended to restore fiscal balance while maintaining the required reserve.
- Study session reports an estimated $30 million shortfall and county/FCMAT oversight
- Second interim reports qualified certification and an estimated $32 million adjustment
- Presentation identifies third-interim and adopted-budget work for June 2026
- Target month stated for a Board-approved fiscal stability plan
Funding
General Fund operating budget, with one-time state support discussed but not assumed as a structural solution
Funding, spending, and project details come from two collected official AUSD budget presentations; the governance description also uses the district's official Board information.
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