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Public records of the Newark Unified School District
Board meetings, votes and the district's finances, collected from public filings and kept in one place. Two ways in: browse the record, or ask about it.
NUSD Board & Financial Information
Browse and search the whole record in one place: agendas and votes, meeting video with transcripts, warrants, purchase orders, vendor accounts and the district's financials.
- Meetings
- Votes
- Transcripts
- Warrants
- Purchase orders
- Accounts
- Financials
Ask the meetings
Put a question to an analyst that has read the record: what was decided, what was promised, what doesn't add up. Every answer cites the document it came from. Now Plexus 1.0: it also reads the record against what a California school district is expected to do. Record updated through October 6, 2026.
- Cited answers
- World knowledge
- Any language
- Includes the district website
- Experimental
CAASPP – Smarter Balanced test results
2014–15 to 2025–26Newark Unified
English and math for the district and every school: eleven years of trends, what drove each change, how it does against similar districts, and what became of its graduates.
See Newark → Alameda CountyEvery district and school
Compare and rank every district and school in the county by subject, grade and student group, with California as the reference.
Open the county results → CaliforniaStatewide map
Every school in the state on one map, colored by English, math or both, from green for high to red for low.
Open the map →Relative performance
Scores track who attends a school, so this index asks how a school does against schools serving similar students: a model fitted on every traditional California school — parents' education, economic status, English learners, disabilities, grades tested; no race or ethnicity — gives an expected result, a percentile, and the twelve most similar schools by name.
After high school
Graduation rate, the share meeting UC/CSU “A–G” requirements, college/career readiness, and the share in a college within a year, for every high school and district. One finding: who attends a school explains most of its test scores but only a fifth of whether its students complete A–G.
Following a class
The same class followed up the grades — grade 3 one year, grade 4 the next — against the county's and the state's same class, separating “the school improved” from “this year's children differed”.
Results by student profile
Pick a profile — parents' education, economic status, English learner, disability — and a county or district, and see how such students scored at each school beside its overall rate.
What drove the change
Each change split between student groups — last year, three years, since before the pandemic — with a short written analysis of what mattered most; the figures are the evidence, and the text never guesses at why.
Counties, diversity and more
The Bay Area or all 58 counties compared; a diversity index with each school's “mix gap” from its district; achievement levels by grade; every reported student group. All from the California Department of Education's public files.
New in Plexus 1.0
Released Oct 16, 2026The record, read against world knowledge
Until now the analyst could only find and quote what the district's own record says. Plexus 1.0 adds a second source of knowledge: a researched model of how a California school district is expected to work — what the law requires of it, what is typical, what good practice looks like, and the warning signs of trouble, each with its deadline and the statute or guidance it comes from. That model is built separately, from public sources, and says nothing about Newark in particular.
Ask how the district stands
Between the record and the model, Plexus keeps a standing understanding of the district: for each expectation, what the record shows and whether it meets it, falls short, or leaves no trace — and every such reading is checked by a second, sceptical pass before it is trusted. Ask whether the district is financially healthy, whether its bond money is overseen the way the rules expect, or how stable its leadership has been, and the answer sets the record's facts against that norm, saying plainly which is which, and cites both.
The record is still the only evidence
The model is the yardstick, never a fact about Newark. A judgement against it is always attributed, with the law or guidance it rests on, and never stated as fact.
What changed, and why
Plexus keeps a history of its own understandings, so it can tell you what changed between one reading of the record and the next, and why.