Milpitas Unified School District

Profile

Deliverable 1, Element 5 · organizational profile

Regional Context

Suburban district shaped by an industrial and technology corridor between San José and Fremont. Second-largest LEA in the cohort.

Populations Served

10,192 students district-wide; 3,724 at the three participating sites. Socioeconomic disadvantage 44.5–76.2%, English learners 11.4–22.9%, students with disabilities 8.1–18.1%. Two of three sites Title I schoolwide.

Funding Model

LCFF.

Board-Adopted BH Investment

$4,700,005 per year under LCAP Action 2.6, mental health staffing, funded from the Learning Recovery Emergency Block Grant. Plus $324,398 under Action 2.10, “Site leaders will implement MTSS Tier 1–3 Social Emotional and Mental Health”, which names site leaders as accountable owners at each tier.

Sustainability Note

The $4.7M is one-time state money. The Learning Recovery Emergency Block Grant is expiring. Milpitas therefore carries the cohort’s largest behavioral health staffing investment on its least durable funding source, which makes it the clearest test case in the cohort for whether performance management evidence can support a transition onto recurring funding.

County BH Relationship

Santa Clara County Behavioral Health Services Department partner. Care Solace provides 24/7 care navigation for families and staff districtwide.

BHSSA / MHSSA Standing

Attributable at site level. Milpitas High hosts an SCCOE-operated wellness center, one of only three in Santa Clara County, opened November 2023, alongside $300,000 in SAMHSA Community Project Funding. SCCOE reports the center as BHSSA-funded and staffs the wellness coach in the 2026–27 school year, with the district contracting the other clinicians. Note that the wellness center sits at Milpitas High, not at the district’s other two participating sites.

CYBHI Fee Schedule

Reimbursement received, per the DHCS participant list current to August 2026, the strongest CYBHI position available. Milpitas does not appear on either published cohort roster, which is a limitation of those lists rather than of the district.

BH Staffing (Sites)

Rancho: school psychologist, mental health counselor, counselor position in transition. Milpitas High: an SCCOE-staffed wellness coach at the wellness center, plus a school social worker shared with Calaveras Hills. Calaveras Hills: two mental health counselors, the shared social worker, and a county alcohol and drug counselor, the densest staffing-to-enrollment ratio in the cohort. District clinical capacity is maintained separately, largely through contracted associate marriage and family therapists and social workers deployed across the district under the district’s lead social worker.

Existing Screening

No universal screener documented at any of the three sites.

SIS And Access

Aeries · Clever single sign-on live districtwide · 1:1 Chromebooks and MacBooks.

Consent Model

Set at district level, on the program’s family consent platform.