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Antioch Unified outlines LCAP priorities and preliminary 2025–26 budget, highlights EL reclassification gains and attendance work
Summary
District staff presented the 2025–26 LCAP update and a preliminary budget: presenters reported 313 English-learner reclassifications (up from 218), declines in suspensions and chronic absenteeism for multiple student groups, plans to hire a bilingual attendance liaison and purchase truancy vans, and LCFF revenue and multi-year budget assumptions tied to expiring one-time funds.
District staff presented the 2025–26 Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP) update and a preliminary budget overview during a public hearing, highlighting instructional priorities, equity-audit recommendations and projected revenue assumptions for the coming year.
The LCAP presentation, grounded in recommendations from the National Center for Urban Schools Transformation (ENCUS), emphasized three broad goals: standards-mastery learning with PLC-based professional learning and proficiency scales; increasing administrator time in classrooms through refined walkthrough tools and feedback; and culturally responsive practices with targeted supports for unduplicated pupils. Staff reported 1,751 walkthroughs logged by administrators and plans to refine the observation instrument next year to be more specific and actionable.
Presenters said the district reclassified 313 English learners this year, up from 218 the prior year, and highlighted reductions in chronic absenteeism and suspensions tied to restorative practices and alternative-to-suspension programs. The presentation listed subgroup improvements (presented figures included a 10.3% decrease for foster students and other subgroup percentage declines called out in the report). To address attendance and chronic absenteeism the district plans to hire a bilingual district attendance liaison, revise the School Attendance Review Board process toward restorative approaches and deploy a truancy transportation van pilot to assist students who need transport to school.
On the budget front, staff explained California’s Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) calculations and assumptions. Presenters said the district projects just over $221 million in LCFF revenue and slightly more than $54 million in supplemental and concentration funding to support high-need student actions in the LCAP. Staff also noted reduced federal ESSER and other one-time grant revenues expected in 2025–26; a number of one-time carryover grants and capital/ventilation expenditures will be spent down in 2025–26, producing a planned drawdown of the ending fund balance from a recent high toward a lower multi-year level.
The multi-year projection showed a planned reduction in expenditures from 2025–26 to 2026–27 of about $21 million, of which staff identified approximately $6 million of unspecified reductions the district plans to define with the incoming superintendent and board. District presenters stressed that some of the decrease reflects one-time funds expiring and that ongoing structural adjustments will be part of next year’s planning and strategic process.
Board members asked for clearer presentation of relative versus absolute percentage changes in future data slides and encouraged more frequent monitoring dashboards throughout the year so trustees and the public can track progress before the December dashboard release.
