05 · Baseline Capacity
Organizational Profiles
Exhibit A requires: “Organizational profiles for selected LEAs and schools, including student demographics, regional context, populations served, baseline behavioral health capacity indicators, and reasons for participation.” Exhibit A, page 5 ↗
Six LEA profiles follow. School-level demographics for all eighteen sites are in the cohort roster above; school-level behavioral health capacity is in the site readiness assessments, and the full baseline capacity matrix is in the companion instruments record.
Milpitas Unified School District
Santa Clara County · suburban industrial and technology corridor
10,192 students · 19 schools · grades TK–12 · LCFF
10,192 students · 19 schools · grades TK–12 · LCFF
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. LCAP ↗
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
Site-level attribution confirmed. 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. 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: wellness center staffing 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.
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 with the district.
Reason For Participation. Milpitas is the cohort’s complete evidence chain: MHSSA funding attributable to a named site, CYBHI reimbursement actually drawn, a documented wellness center with published utilization, and $4.7 million a year in board-adopted staffing on expiring money. Its agreement set is complete: the memorandum with SCCOE, the master services agreement and the CA-NDPA are all executed. Rancho Milpitas serves grades 7 and 8 and screens 7th grade, the year ahead of the eighth-grade transition.
Mount Pleasant Elementary School District
Santa Clara County · east San José · dense urban neighborhood
1,497 students · 5 schools · grades TK–8 · LCFF with concentration grant
1,497 students · 5 schools · grades TK–8 · LCFF with concentration grant
Regional Context
Urban neighborhood district on the east side of San José. The smallest LEA in the cohort by enrollment, and the one where the participating sites represent the largest share of the district: three of five schools.
Populations Served
1,497 students district-wide; 1,340 at the three participating sites, 90% of the district. Socioeconomic disadvantage 68.5–82.4%, English learners 37.0–44.7% (the cohort’s highest), students with disabilities 10.4–18.8%.
Funding Model
LCFF with base, supplemental and concentration grant funding, per the 2025–26 LCAP.
Board-Adopted BH Investment
$198,655 per year under LCAP Action 1.6, “Additional Staff to Monitor Progress and Services for Our Most Vulnerable Students”, funding one additional FTE psychologist LEA-wide. LCAP ↗ The smallest figure in the cohort, at the district with the highest need concentration.
County BH Relationship
Santa Clara County Behavioral Health School Linked Services is named as a funder of family liaison and engagement work across all three Community School implementation plans.
BHSSA / MHSSA Standing
Within SCCOE’s MHSSA consortium of 31 districts, awarded July 2020. The grant names the thirty-one districts collectively rather than enumerating them, so district-level named-partner status cannot be asserted from it. DEFINITIONAL
CYBHI Fee Schedule
Cohort 4 participant. No reimbursement recorded on the DHCS participant list.
Community Schools
CCSPP implementation district. August Boeger and Robert Sanders are both designated Community Schools and both are BHPM sites: one of two cases in the cohort where the two initiatives meet at site level rather than district level.
BH Staffing (Sites)
August Boeger: wellness coach, school counselor, counseling resident. Robert Sanders: counselor (shared) and community school coordinator, with roughly 0.2 FTE county ARCC Tier 2 support. Ida Jew / Valle Vista: counselor (shared) and a community school coordinator with wellness coach certification.
Existing Screening
“Sown to Grow” weekly check-in: full implementation at August Boeger, second-year and inconsistent at Robert Sanders, and no universal instrument at Ida Jew / Valle Vista.
SIS And Access
PowerSchool · Clever single sign-on live districtwide · 1:1, iPads K–2 and Chromebooks 3–8.
Consent Model
Family consent platform ↗, with Robert Sanders additionally requesting paper forms.
Reason For Participation. Mount Pleasant is furthest along on service and furthest behind on measurement, and the district said so. August Boeger’s wellness center logged more than 10,000 visits against roughly 400 students last year with no instrument that says what those visits produced. The district selected two Community Schools and one campus with no screener at all specifically to see implementation with and without existing scaffolding. Screening dates are already fixed for October 1–2, the only LEA in the cohort with a confirmed administration date.
Sunnyvale School District
Santa Clara County · suburban, technology economy
5,682 students · 10 schools · grades TK–8 · Basic Aid (community-funded)
5,682 students · 10 schools · grades TK–8 · Basic Aid (community-funded)
Regional Context
Sits in the heart of the Silicon Valley technology economy, with the fiscal profile that follows. A TK–8 district with no high school.
Populations Served
5,682 students district-wide; 2,122 at the three participating sites. Socioeconomic disadvantage 21.1–41.4%, the cohort’s lowest range, with English learners 17.9–28.4% and students with disabilities 11.5–16.4%. Two of three sites Title I schoolwide.
Funding Model
Basic Aid: community-funded. Operates on excess local property tax at $7,263 per pupil above its LCFF entitlement. The only Basic Aid district in the cohort, and one of 139 statewide.
Board-Adopted BH Investment
$6,931,107 per year under LCAP Action 1.2, “Inclusive and Nurturing Environments Targeted Staffing”, of which behavior specialists represent 57.4%, school social workers 15.5%, and Mental Health and Wellness Associates 5.1%. LCAP ↗ The LCAP also records the district evaluating the sustainability and compliance requirements of mental health billing, weighing a more integrated internally supported service model.
County BH Relationship
SCCOE Youth Health & Wellness network. Lakewood Elementary hosts a wellness center that SCCOE Youth Health and Wellness previously operated and staffed. Operation has transitioned back to Sunnyvale School District, and SCCOE does not staff the center in the 2026–27 school year.
BHSSA / MHSSA Standing
Within the same SCCOE MHSSA consortium of 31 districts. Same definitional limit as Mount Pleasant. DEFINITIONAL
CYBHI Fee Schedule
Cohort 1 participant, reimbursement received.
BH Staffing (District)
A coordinated district model rather than site-by-site staffing: school social workers report to a lead social worker who supervises across all three participating sites. Both middle schools currently receive social work services.
Existing Screening
None documented at the three participating sites.
SIS And Access
PowerSchool · Clever single sign-on live districtwide.
Consent Model
Grade-split. 6th grade under active opt-in consent; 7th and 8th under passive opt-out. The only LEA running two consent processes in the same building.
Reason For Participation. Sunnyvale is why this cohort’s sustainability findings will transfer. Every argument about funding school behavioral health from LCFF supplemental and concentration dollars fails in a Basic Aid district, and 139 California districts are Basic Aid. Sunnyvale also scoped participation deliberately, taking one grade at one elementary school and expanding in later years based on results. That is a district treating this as multi-year systems change rather than a compliance exercise.
Lake Tahoe Unified School District
El Dorado County · rural mountain, seasonal economy
3,363 students · 8 schools · grades TK–12 · LCFF
3,363 students · 8 schools · grades TK–12 · LCFF
Regional Context
Rural mountain district in a seasonal-economy town in the Sierra Nevada. The cohort’s only non-metropolitan member and the only participating LEA outside the Bay Area, Ventura and San Diego axis. Its inclusion is the reason findings from this project can speak to rural California.
Populations Served
3,363 students district-wide; 2,214 at the three participating sites, two-thirds of the district. Socioeconomic disadvantage 46.7–59.2%, English learners 12.4–35.1%, students with disabilities 11.6–13.4%. All three Title I schoolwide.
Funding Model
LCFF. Not Basic Aid, an easy and consequential confusion, since neighboring Tahoe–Truckee Unified in Placer County is Basic Aid at $6,277 excess revenue per pupil.
Board-Adopted BH Investment
$1,713,138 per year across two actions funding counselors and structured wellbeing practice, with the LCAP documenting wellness coaches and site wellness center staff working on student referrals for mental and behavioral health needs. LCAP ↗ MTSS terminology itself is sparse in the plan.
County BH Relationship
El Dorado County Behavioral Health, under executed grant agreement #24MHSOAC008. Wellness center staffing at sites runs through this standing partnership.
BHSSA / MHSSA Standing
County holds a BHSSA Phase 3 award plus a Round 4 sustainability grant. The county agreement names no LEAs. Same attribution gap, at its most complete.
CYBHI Fee Schedule
Cohort 2 participant. No reimbursement recorded.
Community Schools
CCSPP Cohort 3 award, $4.7 million, whose implementation plan names Bijou Community School, a participating BHPM site. The second of the two cases in this cohort where Community Schools and BHPM meet at site level.
BH Staffing (Sites)
On-campus wellness clinic at South Tahoe Middle and a wellness center at South Tahoe High, staffed through the county partnership. Bijou is a designated community school under the CCSPP plan.
Existing Screening
None documented.
SIS And Access
Aeries · Clever single sign-on live districtwide.
Consent Model
Set with the district.
Reason For Participation. Lake Tahoe is the only LEA producing the exact grade-band composition Exhibit A describes, the cohort’s only rural context, and its only fourth county. It also brings the least prior behavioral health measurement infrastructure in the cohort: no universal screening instrument is documented at any of the three sites, against a complete agreement set and county-staffed wellness provision at both secondary campuses. Paperwork readiness and measurement practice are different things, and this district shows the difference clearly.
Rio School District
Ventura County · Oxnard plain · agricultural coastal community
5,208 students · 9 schools · grades TK–8 · LCFF with concentration grant
5,208 students · 9 schools · grades TK–8 · LCFF with concentration grant
Regional Context
Agricultural community on the Oxnard plain in Ventura County. The cohort’s only Ventura member and its only coastal-agricultural context.
Populations Served
5,208 students district-wide; 1,881 at the three participating sites. Across those three, socioeconomic disadvantage runs 54.9–81.0%, English learners 11.2–40.0%, students with disabilities 9.3–20.2%. All three are Title I schoolwide.
Funding Model
LCFF with a concentration grant, per the 2026–27 LCAP. Not Basic Aid.
Board-Adopted BH Investment
$2,859,585 per year under LCAP Action 3.5, “Health & Wellness: Student Services”, LEA-wide and contributing to increased or improved services for English learners, foster youth and low-income students. LCAP ↗
County BH Relationship
Ventura County Office of Education operates wellness centers at all nine Rio schools, including the three participating sites, under its CYBHI School-Linked Partnership and Capacity Grant. Ventura County Behavioral Health is the county partner.
BHSSA / MHSSA Standing
Unresolved at site level. Ventura’s MHSSA grant summary names five wellness-center districts and Rio is not among them, yet VCOE operates centers at all nine Rio schools. Whether those centers draw MHSSA or general MHSA dollars is not resolvable from public sources, which is the attribution pattern described under Element 1.
CYBHI Fee Schedule
Not listed on the Cohort 1–4 or Cohort 5 rosters and not on the reimbursement list. Documented CYBHI connection is the county capacity grant, plus two CYBHI-funded associates working toward licensure on district staff.
BH Staffing (District)
4 mental health and wellness clinicians · 13 counselors · 5 parent liaisons · 2 CYBHI-funded associates in licensure pathway.
Existing Screening
Panorama, Level 1, districtwide. Rio Vista Middle additionally ran an Impacter Pathway pilot in March 2026.
SIS And Access
“Q” (Equitus Solutions) · Clever single sign-on live districtwide · 1:1 Chromebooks confirmed grades 3–5.
Consent Model
Informational notice with opt-out, districtwide. District rationale: this is a skills-based assessment rather than a mental health survey, and community concern is low.
Reason For Participation. Rio volunteered at all three sites and has moved faster operationally than any other LEA in the cohort: a full-team strategy session on September 2, individual site planning meetings across the following two weeks, named counselor champions at every site receiving $2,000 stipends, and a target population confirmed at each. The district’s stated interest is in seeing whether a rubric-scored instrument tells it something Panorama does not.
San Diego Unified School District
San Diego County · large urban
112,250 students · 226 schools · grades TK–12 · LCFF
112,250 students · 226 schools · grades TK–12 · LCFF
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 report uses the CDE figure of 112,250 throughout.
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. LCAP ↗
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, and still without published site-level allocation, which is exactly the attribution problem described under Element 1.
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 participating sites, alongside an on-campus wellness center with a wellness coordinator at each, the stated reason they were priority candidates. The wellness coordinator is the designated behavioral health lead at each site.
Existing Screening
Clairemont High has administered a behavioral health screener previously, and reviews screening data in a weekly multi-tiered system of support meeting.
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.
Reason For Participation. 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, selected from a wider field of schools that asked to take part. 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.
What The Six Profiles Show Together
Board-adopted behavioral health investment across the six LEAs exceeds $21 million a year, and none of it is BHSSA money. Rio budgets $2.9 million, Mount Pleasant $199,000, Milpitas $5.0 million across two actions, Sunnyvale $6.9 million, San Diego $4.7 million, Lake Tahoe $1.7 million. These are board-adopted, publicly documented commitments in Local Control and Accountability Plans: the districts’ own money, spent on counselors, wellness staff, psychologists and social workers.
Set against that, county BHSSA and MHSSA service arrives without site-level attribution. The consequence is precise: where BHSSA-funded service and district-funded service reach the same student on the same campus, nothing currently distinguishes them. Current reporting structures provide visibility into funded programs at the county and consortium level, and recruitment illuminated an opportunity to connect that investment information to the school sites where implementation occurs. That is not an accounting complaint. It is the reason a performance management layer is worth building, and this cohort was selected from exactly the districts where the entanglement is deepest.
Every participating LEA is spending its own money on behavioral health at scale. BHPM creates an opportunity to connect that spending to evidence of what it changed for a student.
Why This Matters
Board-adopted behavioral health investment across the six LEAs exceeds $21 million a year, none of it BHSSA, and BHPM creates an opportunity to connect the Commission’s investment to what it produced.