District overview
Calistoga Joint Unified School District
Funding structure, how it compares to peers, and where major projects stand.
How is the district funded and governed?
Calistoga Joint Unified is an active K-12 public district governed by a single Board of Trustees. California operating support is organized through the Local Control Funding Formula, whose base, grade-span, and supplemental or concentration components are driven by attendance and the share of high-need students; local property taxes and state aid combine to fund the entitlement, while locally approved bonds support facilities rather than ordinary operations.
Funding follows California's district framework
Operating support is driven by attendance, grade span, and student need under California’s Local Control Funding Formula, with local property taxes and state aid making up the entitlement.
Facilities are supported by local bonds
The April Board agenda scheduled general-obligation bond and refunding resolutions totaling up to $12.3 million; final issuance terms remain to be confirmed.
A new immersion program is planned
The April agenda identifies an August 2026 Spanish dual-language immersion launch tied to an agreement with teachers.
Property use remains an active governance issue
The January and April agendas reference surplus-property review, the Gallis property, and a state waiver process.
Agenda-stage bond and property actions establish what the Board planned to consider, but not final approval, pricing, or disposition.
What the available record establishes
Context from the California Department of Education district profile; this figure is not from the Board agenda.
Sum of two agenda-stage caps; this is context arithmetic, not a verified final issuance amount.
Context from the California School Directory.
A current complete budget and compatible enrollment basis were not available, so this overview does not present a potentially misleading derived figure.
Major projects
Spanish dual-language immersion
August 2026 launch identifiedThe Board agenda identifies a teacher agreement for launching a Spanish dual-language immersion program.
- Teacher MOU appears as a Board action item
- Program launch planned during August 2026
Funding
Not stated in the Board agenda
The agenda does not state program cost, grade span, or enrollment capacity.
Bond financing and facilities work
Financing actions placed on agendaThe April agenda lists proposed issuance of up to $9 million in district bonds and up to $3.3 million in refunding bonds.
- Baseball and softball field repair agreement appears as an action item
- Junior/senior high classroom modernization completion appears on consent agenda
- Bond issuance and refunding resolutions appear as action items
Funding
Local general-obligation bonds
Final issuance amounts, pricing, repayment, and vote results remain to be confirmed.
Surplus-property review
Advisory and waiver process underwayBoard agendas reference a surplus-property advisory report, the Gallis property, and a State Board of Education waiver.
- Advisory report and Gallis-property resolution listed
- Public hearing and proposed state waiver listed
Funding
District real-property assets
No final sale, lease, proceeds, or reuse decision has been identified.
This partial overview uses seven official agenda images collected from the district's open document CDN and reviewed chronologically. The BoardDocs record and blocked Apptegy archive were not treated as reviewed.
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