Beaumont Unified presents 2025—26 LCAP, highlights attendance gains and equity goals

Beaumont Unified School District leaders presented the 2025—26 Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) and the integrated annual update at the board meeting on May 27, outlining priorities, targeted funding and performance goals for the district—s three-year plan.

The presentation explained that LCAP spending directs supplemental and concentration LCFF funds toward unduplicated pupils (listed in the presentation as roughly 7% English learners, 68.8% socioeconomically disadvantaged and 7% foster youth) and reviewed the plan structure: state priorities, plan summary, engagement with educational partners, goal-level actions and the budget overview for parents. “This year the template changed and the annual update is now included in the LCAP,” a district presenter said during the overview.

District staff identified five LCAP goals for 2025—26: climate and culture; student outcomes (academic, behavioral and social); conditions of learning; a chronic-absence reduction goal targeted at equity multiplier schools; and a college-and-career indicator (CCI) improvement goal for continuation-school Glen View. For Glen View the board heard a measurable target: a 4% increase in the CCI for specified student subgroups.

On performance, the presentation highlighted recent improvements at the secondary level: a drop in D/F rates of about 5.3% in the first semester and 3.9% in the second, and an overall decline in chronic absenteeism described as roughly 10.2%. “Chronic absenteeism has declined by 10.2% overall,” Dr. Chang said, citing district data used in the LCAP. Staff emphasized that the plan is driven by data from the 2022—23 reporting cycle, the required baseline for the current three-year plan.

District leaders said the state—s equity multiplier designation added two required goals this cycle because a small set of schools met the multiplier criteria (non-stability rate and a high percentage of socioeconomically disadvantaged students). For one equity-multiplier site, 21st Century Learning Institute, chronic absenteeism measured about 41.9% and the district set a 3% year-over-year reduction target for the school.

Trustees and staff discussed how to increase CCI measures at Glen View (dual enrollment, the state seal of biliteracy and course completions), and the district described plans to add staffing (bilingual aides, EL/TEL staffing and instructional coaches) and to expand STEM supports K—12. Board members asked for clearer ways to track three-year LCAP targets and for a historical record of actions and outcomes; staff said the new template and metrics require demonstrable improvements and that the county can require changes if actions do not show measurable benefit.

The presentation also described community engagement: the district used the K12 Insight survey this year, collecting about 830 family responses, 371 staff responses and more than 4,000 student responses (the transcript records the student response count as "4,38"; staff indicated that refers to roughly 4,300 student responses). Staff said partner feedback informed action changes such as revising action 2.8 to add a bilingual aide at one site and expanding staffing for EL services.

The board opened and closed a public hearing on the LCAP; no members of the public addressed the board during the hearing. Trustees did not take formal action to adopt the plan at the meeting; staff said the district will return to the board for any required adoption steps that follow the public comment period and county review.

What happens next: staff will continue to refine metrics, finalize staffing assignments in the 2025—26 budget process and return to the board as required for formal adoption or revisions based on county review.