BHPM · Public Record
BHPM. Behavioral Health Performance Management System
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Districts & SchoolsSan Diego County · Large urban

San Diego Unified School District

San Diego brings scale, a second county behavioral health system, the cohort’s only southern California context, and a vertical feeder structure that lets one student population be tracked from a middle school into the high school it feeds. The three participating schools are Pacific Beach Middle; Mission Bay High; and Clairemont High. The district first identified a different three after the August 5 kickoff, on a vertical articulation rationale, then refined the selection toward campuses with an established continuum of care. Pacific Beach Middle feeds Mission Bay High, and each of the three operates an on-campus wellness center, which is what lets the project measure how well services already running are working.

112,250 students226 schoolsLCFFCYBHI · Cohort 1 · Reimbursed

Profile

Deliverable 1, Element 5 · organizational profile

Regional Context
Among the largest urban school districts in the United States, on California’s southern border. The cohort’s only southern California member and, by an order of magnitude, its largest LEA.
Populations Served
112,250 students district-wide; 2,778 at the three participating sites. Socioeconomic disadvantage runs 41.3 to 57.5 percent across the three, students with disabilities 12.8 to 18.5 percent, and the cohort’s lowest English learner share sits at Mission Bay High, 3.1 percent. All three Title I schoolwide.
Scale Definition
CDE reports 112,250 students. The district reports 226 educational facilities, 103,024 students in district-managed schools, and more than 121,000 served. The difference is charter treatment. This record uses the CDE figure of 112,250.
Funding Model
LCFF.
Board-Adopted BH Investment
$4,674,965 per year in LCFF funds ($4,770,268 including federal) under LCAP Action 1.1, “District-Wide Wellness”, LEA-wide across 2025–27.
County BH Relationship
San Diego County Behavioral Health Services. The district is a named partner in SDCOE’s COPES suicide prevention initiative, Phase 2, a $7 million four-year award.
BHSSA / MHSSA Standing
Named partner, the strongest documented BHSSA standing in the cohort. Allocation is held at district level; the county publishes no site-level split.
CYBHI Fee Schedule
Cohort 1 participant, reimbursement received. County CYBHI allocation of $12,825,000.
BH Staffing (Sites)
School counselors in place at all three sites and identified as the staff who lead administration, alongside an on-campus wellness center with a wellness coordinator at each. The wellness coordinator is the designated behavioral health lead at each site, and that established infrastructure is why these three were selected.
Existing Screening
Clairemont High has administered a behavioral health screener previously, and reviews screening data in a weekly multi-tiered system of support meeting attended by the site administrator, the school counselor and the wellness coordinator.
SIS And Access
PowerSchool · Clever single sign-on live districtwide.
Consent Model
Set at district level, on the program’s family consent platform, split by grade band: active consent for 6th grade at Pacific Beach Middle, passive notice with opt-out for 9th grade at Mission Bay High and Clairemont High.

Board-Adopted LCAP Investment

$4,674,965 · Action 1.1 District-Wide Wellness

2025–27 LCAP, Action 1.1

Open The Adopted LCAP

The action in San Diego USD’s board-adopted Local Control and Accountability Plan that funds behavioral health. The figure is quoted from the adopted plan and cites the action number. This is district investment, not program spending.

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