District overview
Las Lomitas Elementary School District
Funding structure, how it compares to peers, and where major projects stand.
A two-school elementary district using property-tax growth and local revenue to balance its operating plan
Las Lomitas operates Las Lomitas Elementary and La Entrada School. Its Governing Board adopts the budget, LCAP, policy, and labor agreements. The district's LCFF sources are dominated by local property taxes, supplemented by limited state aid, federal and state categorical funds, parcel-tax and other local revenue. The Budget Advisory Committee gives the superintendent feedback but does not appropriate funds or replace Board authority.
Property taxes dominate the LCFF line
The FY27 budget projects $33.19 million in LCFF sources, including $29.95 million in secured-roll property taxes and comparatively small state-aid amounts.
The adopted operating plan is nearly balanced before transfers
General Fund revenue of $42.48 million exceeds planned expenditures of $42.40 million by about $78,000 before other financing sources and uses.
Compensation is the principal cost
Certificated and classified salaries plus employee benefits total about $35.62 million, roughly 84% of General Fund expenditures.
Advisory input is timed to fiscal decisions
The public Budget Advisory Committee reviews the audit, interim reports, assumptions, multi-year projections, and estimated actuals before the Board's annual adoption.
The FY27 fund-balance increase is driven largely by a $4.68 million interfund transfer, so the headline ending balance should not be read as recurring operating surplus.
Where the district stands
Adopted budget; restricted and unrestricted revenue combined.
Adopted budget; restricted and unrestricted expenditures combined.
Largest individual revenue line within LCFF sources.
Context calculation from $35,616,546 in adopted salary and benefit lines divided by total expenditures.
Major projects
Balanced Budget Initiative and FY27 implementation
adopted plan under monitoringThe district is implementing a nearly balanced FY27 operating plan while tracking property-tax growth, compensation, restricted-program contributions, and one-time interfund resources through the statutory interim-report cycle.
- Board held the public budget hearing
- Board adopted the 2026-27 budget and LCAP
- Scheduled Board meeting in the First Interim reporting period
- Scheduled public budget study session
Funding
General Fund: primarily local property taxes, with parcel-tax/other local, state, and federal revenue
Recent news
Prepared from the district's adopted 2026-27 SACS budget, Board and Budget Advisory Committee pages, superintendent priorities, and published bond-oversight materials.
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