District overview
Cloverdale Unified School District
Funding structure, how it compares to peers, and where major projects stand.
How is Cloverdale Unified funded and governed?
Cloverdale Unified's elected Board of Trustees sets policy, adopts the budget, appoints the superintendent, and governs Jefferson Elementary, Washington School, Cloverdale High, and Johanna Echols-Hansen Continuation High. Its operating revenue is driven primarily by California's Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), which links funding to funded average daily attendance and adds supplemental and concentration funding for higher-need pupils. Declining enrollment therefore affects both staffing plans and future revenue.
The board holds district authority
The elected Board of Trustees approves budgets, contracts, staffing frameworks, facilities work, and superintendent employment; administrators implement those decisions across the district.
Attendance and pupil needs shape state funding
LCFF is the central revenue mechanism. Funded attendance drives the base grant, while the district's unduplicated pupil count affects supplemental and concentration grants.
School councils advise at the site level
School Site Councils and English Learner Advisory Committees develop or advise on site plans and targeted funds, but they do not replace the Board of Trustees as the district's governing body.
Enrollment is budget-sensitive
The June 2026 budget projects 1,222 pupils for 2026-27, down from the prior year's district total, so the multiyear plan must align staffing and services with a smaller enrollment base.
The June budget projects an unrestricted ending balance above the required three-percent reserve. Enrollment pressure warrants monitoring, but the adopted figures do not by themselves show a fiscal emergency.
Budget and enrollment
Context calculation from the adopted-budget presentation: Jefferson 465, Washington 347, and CHS/JEH 410.
Context calculation: the stated $725,144 routine-maintenance transfer equals 3% of contributing-resource expenditures, implying about $24.17 million; divided by 1,222 projected pupils. This is a planning measure, not an audited all-funds per-pupil total.
The presentation projects $2,432,996 at June 30, 2027.
The adopted budget identifies this as the three-percent reserve standard.
Major projects
Cloverdale High wellness center
Space prepared for an October 2026 openingThe district is converting an existing high-school room into a hub for physical and emotional-health support and has advanced staffing, painting, electrical, flooring, and network work.
- Board receives the concept and funding plan
- Board approves a Wellness Coach job description
- District reports planning for an October 2026 full opening
- District reports the room and supporting infrastructure substantially prepared
Funding
Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative capacity grant and multi-insurance reimbursements
The January plan anticipates no general-fund contribution; a final all-in implementation cost was not stated.
Career technical education expansion
Programs advancing while facilities funding remains conditionalCloverdale High is adding theater production, expanding agriculture construction, and building work-based-learning capacity while pursuing state facilities support for child-development and agriculture spaces.
- Board authorizes two state CTE facilities applications
- District presents a $910,990 work-based-learning grant and facilities plan
- High school reports the new theater pathway and workforce-coordinator roles
Funding
Work-based-learning grant, pending California CTE facilities grants, and fundraising
The district described an $18 million facilities goal, but did not identify that full amount as secured.
Jefferson early-learning campus project
New learning area open; formal closeout remainsJefferson opened its new early-learning area after a multiyear modular-building effort, while final punch-list, site, and administrative closeout work continued.
- District reports the project on schedule for its next construction phase
- District reports substantial completion and final punch work
- Jefferson reports an early-learning-area ribbon cutting
Funding
Measure H general-obligation bond proceeds and district project funds
Official updates identify contracts and change orders, but no single final all-in project total was established in the reviewed materials.
Recent news
This overview uses official Cloverdale Unified board materials, including the June 2026 adopted-budget presentation and dated project updates from the trailing year.
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