District overview
Castro Valley Unified School District
How Castro Valley Unified is governed, funded, and changing.
How is the district funded, governed, and planning major changes?
Castro Valley Unified is governed by a five-member elected Board of Education, which controls district policy, budgets, curriculum, senior leadership, and facilities. Operating revenue follows California’s Local Control Funding Formula, driven by attendance and student need, while local bond proceeds support capital work; the district retained a positive 2025-26 interim certification even as expenditures exceeded current-year revenue.
State formula funding
Most operating revenue comes through California's Local Control Funding Formula, with attendance and student needs shaping the amount.
Five trustee areas
Five elected trustees make districtwide decisions; school site councils separately review each school's achievement plan and categorical budget.
Costs exceed current-year revenue
The March interim report listed about $160 million of revenue and $167.6 million of expenditures while retaining a positive certification.
Major changes are in motion
The district is developing phone restrictions, expanding dual-language instruction, and planning a long facilities program supported by bond measures.
A positive certification means the district expects to meet its obligations. Spending above revenue in one year does not itself establish insolvency, but it makes future budget and reserve reports important to follow.
Where the district stands
California Department of Education enrollment context.
Major projects
Student mobile-device policy
Second reading and adoption scheduledThe district gathered community input and moved a smartphone-limit policy toward Board Policy Subcommittee review ahead of a state deadline.
- District describes its community-input process.
- Staff, student, and family surveys are complete.
- Roadmap moves toward policy-subcommittee review.
- Agenda schedules second reading and adoption; approved minutes were not yet public.
Funding
District operating budget
No separate implementation appropriation is identified.
Spanish dual-language pathway expansion
Planning for 2028The Vannoy Elementary pathway reports strong retention and demand, with plans to extend to middle and high school at the Canyon campus.
- District says a middle-school program is planned for 2028–29.
- Board update reports more than 100 TK/K applications and continued secondary planning.
Funding
District instructional-program budget
A separate expansion cost is not identified.
Long-range facilities program
Phased planning and constructionThe Board reviewed a long-range facilities master plan, active campus work, and a proposed $212 million bond election to finance later phases.
- Facilities master-plan update says implementation will require phased bond measures over many years.
- A $212 million bond-election resolution appears in the minutes, but the recorded action text names a personnel report instead.
- Board authorizes further high-school modernization and a Canyon cafeteria procurement.
Funding
Existing facilities funds and proposed local bond financing
The final bond-election action remains unresolved because the February action text is internally inconsistent.
Built from every one of the 43 official agenda and approved-minute records collected for August 12, 2025 through August 12, 2026 and reviewed chronologically.
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