Lamorinda Schools, District by District
Lafayette, Moraga and Orinda each split across two high schools. Your street decides which one.
Lamorinda is not a town. It is three of them — Lafayette, Moraga and Orinda — with their own districts and their own schools, and the schools are strong right across all three.
Published August 22, 2026
Every town splits
All three towns send kids to more than one high school. It depends on your street, not your town.
Lafayette
most areas go to Acalanes, but Campolindo for 13 of 52 areas.
Moraga
most areas go to Campolindo, but Miramonte for 10 of 36 areas.
Orinda
most areas go to Miramonte, but Campolindo for 1 of 26 areas.
So roughly a quarter of Lafayette goes to Campolindo, not Acalanes. More than a quarter of Moraga goes to Miramonte, not Campolindo. Orinda is the closest to uniform, and even there one area goes elsewhere.
Those counts are attendance areas from the high school district's own boundary data, not student numbers. They show the split is real. They don't tell you how many families sit in each one.
The three high schools
All three are in the Acalanes Union High School District, along with Las Lomas in Walnut Creek. They all show 10 out of 10. The state test scores put real distance between them.
| School | Grades | Rating | English | Math |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Las Lomas High School1460 S Main St, Walnut CreekWhere almost every Walnut Creek School District kid ends up. It has about three times as many low income families as Miramonte (15.4% vs 4.6% on free or reduced price meals, 2024-25). | 9-12 | 10/10 | 71.17% | 56.47% |
| Acalanes High School1200 Pleasant Hill Rd, Lafayette | 9-12 | 10/10 | 82.45% | 63.06% |
| Campolindo High School300 Moraga Rd, Moraga | 9-12 | 10/10 | 85.41% | 70.13% |
| Miramonte High School750 Moraga Way, Orinda | 9-12 | 10/10 | 89.83% | 78.71% |
The three Lamorinda schools sit within about seven points of each other in English. Las Lomas, in Walnut Creek, is further back. So the split is worth knowing about, but between Acalanes, Campolindo and Miramonte you are choosing between three strong schools, not a good one and a bad one.
Lafayette School District
Lafayette, kindergarten through eighth grade. Four elementary schools feed one middle school. After that most kids go to Acalanes, but a quarter of the town goes to Campolindo instead.
About 3,235 kids. District wide, 80.09% met the state English standard and 80.04% met the math one in 2024-25.
| School | Grades | Rating | English | Math |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burton Valley Elementary561 Merriewood Dr, LafayetteThe largest of the four. Has a school garden program and fifth grade band, strings and chorus. | K-5 | 9/10 | 80.58% | 83.38% |
| Happy Valley Elementary3855 Happy Valley Rd, LafayetteA 2015 National Blue Ribbon School. Its test scores are the strongest in the district, and its rating is still lower than two of the other three elementary schools. | K-5 | 8/10 | 88.99% | 88.08% |
| Lafayette Elementary950 Moraga Rd, LafayetteRuns a daily reading lab and caps classes at 20 in TK and 24 through third grade. | K-5 | 9/10 | 85.94% | 79.93% |
| Springhill Elementary3301 Springhill Rd, LafayetteHas a science lab, a dedicated music room and an outdoor garden classroom. | K-5 | 7/10 | 82.53% | 85.16% |
| M. H. Stanley Middle School3455 School St, LafayetteA 2024 California Distinguished School, and where every Lafayette kid goes for middle school. Deep electives: three bands, three jazz ensembles, two string orchestras, robotics, wood tech and a year-long gardening class. | 6-8 | 8/10 | 76.33% | 76.4% |
Moraga School District
Moraga, kindergarten through eighth grade. Three elementary schools feed one intermediate school. Most kids then go to Campolindo, but more than a quarter of the town goes to Miramonte.
About 1,805 kids. District wide, 81.27% met the state English standard and 74.77% met the math one in 2024-25.
| School | Grades | Rating | English | Math |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Camino Pablo Elementary1111 Camino Pablo, MoragaBand, choir and strings in fourth and fifth grade, taught by credentialed specialists. | K-5 | 9/10 | 77.07% | 75.8% |
| Donald L. Rheem Elementary90 Laird Dr, MoragaThe strongest test scores in the district, with the lowest rating of the three elementary schools. Credentialed art and music teachers for every student. | K-5 | 8/10 | 84.83% | 80.75% |
| Los Perales Elementary22 Wakefield Dr, Moraga | K-5 | 9/10 | 74.75% | 75.26% |
| Joaquin Moraga Intermediate1010 Camino Pablo, MoragaWhere every Moraga kid goes for middle school. Sixth graders rotate through a year-long exploratory wheel. Electives include coding and robotics, debate, journalism, and French, Spanish or Mandarin. | 6-8 | 9/10 | 83.2% | 72.55% |
Orinda Union School District
Orinda, transitional kindergarten through eighth grade. Four elementary schools feed one intermediate school, and almost everyone goes on to Miramonte.
About 2,594 kids. District wide, 87.41% met the state English standard and 83.49% met the math one in 2024-25.
| School | Grades | Rating | English | Math |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Del Rey Elementary25 El Camino Moraga, OrindaWeekly music for every grade, with optional band instruments in fourth and fifth. | TK-5 | 9/10 | 86.12% | 86.63% |
| Glorietta Elementary15 Martha Rd, OrindaThe only one of the four that runs science as its own program alongside STEAM. | TK-5 | 10/10 | 85.28% | 85.71% |
| Sleepy Hollow Elementary20 Washington Ln, OrindaIts garden runs as a science program tied to state standards, from plant needs in kindergarten to ecosystems by fifth grade. | TK-5 | 10/10 | 87.17% | 85.57% |
| Wagner Ranch Elementary350 Camino Pablo, OrindaThe strongest scores of any school in Lamorinda. STEAM is its focus, with coding, design and data analysis. | TK-5 | 10/10 | 91.11% | 91.6% |
| Orinda Intermediate80 Ivy Dr, OrindaWhere every Orinda kid goes for middle school, and the only school in the district with world languages. French and Spanish, plus a makerspace, woodworking, broadcast journalism and a debate team going back to 2007. | 6-8 | 10/10 | 87.61% | 79.51% |
Canyon Elementary School District
Canyon is its own school district, and it is tiny. 68 kids in total, across one school, in three mixed age classrooms. Kindergarten through second, third through fifth, and sixth through eighth.
Canyon Elementary School (K-8) 8/10
187 Pinehurst Rd, Canyon
It opened in 1918 and has run in the same small way since. Art on Wednesdays, capoeira, an organic lunch built on vegetables from local gardens, and a winter performance that goes back to the 1920s. There is no boundary tool because there is no boundary question. One school, one district.
Its eighth graders go on to Miramonte.
A note on its test scores, which is why they are not in a table above. Canyon tested 41 students in total. At that size one child moves the result by more than two points, and the state hides every grade level breakdown because the groups are too small to report. The published figures are 53.66% in English and 51.22% in math. Set against a district of two thousand, those numbers would tell you something that is not true.
Where the rating and the scores disagree
The 1 to 10 score and the state test results often point different directions here. Not by a little.
- Happy Valley has the best English scores in Lafayette at 88.99%, and still rates 8/10, below two of the other three elementary schools.
- Burton Valley rates higher at 9/10 with English about eight points lower.
- Donald Rheem has the best English scores in Moraga at 84.83%, and the lowest rating of its three elementary schools at 8/10.
- Los Perales rates 9/10 with English about ten points lower.
Neither number is wrong. They measure different things. The rating is a blend that includes how much students improve year over year and how different groups of kids do, not just the test result. A school can test well and still rate lower once the rest is folded in.
None of this is a warning. Every school in that list rates 8 or better, and across Lamorinda as a whole fourteen of the fifteen schools rate 8 or above. The one exception is a 7. All three districts sit roughly thirty to forty points above the California average in English. The gaps here are gaps between strong schools.
Worth knowing if you compare schools on a listing site: the number shown there is usually this blended rating. Some sites also show a separate test score rating, and the two can differ for the same school.
If the district school isn't right
Your assigned school is not the only option. There are charter schools, which are public and free but sit outside the district boundaries, so you apply instead of being assigned. And there are private schools, which cost anywhere from about $9,600 a year to over $60,000.
Alternatives to your public school district lists what exists near here, what it costs where that is published, and which listings you will find that are out of date.
Check your actual address
Boundaries do not follow town lines, and the high school assignment is the one people get wrong. Check your address with the district.
- Acalanes Union High locator. This is the one that settles which high school you get. It goes by street address.
- Lafayette School District boundaries. The district notes the map is general reference only, and that some K to 5 students attend a different school than it shows. Parcel questions go to (925) 927-3500.
- Moraga School District boundaries. A street by street PDF rather than a lookup tool. (925) 376-5943.
- Orinda Union School District locator. (925) 254-4901.
About this page
The numbers come from the districts, the state test results, and federal enrollment data. I last checked them on August 22, 2026.
Everything here is from a public source — school and district websites and their own boundary tools, the state test results, and federal enrollment data. None of it is private or insider information, and none of it is my own estimate.
Think something here is wrong? Please tell me at report@mountdiablofamilies.com and I will fix it. I would far rather hear about it than leave another parent working off a bad number.
I am not ranking these schools. Which one is right depends on your kid.
This is an independent guide. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or speaking for any school district. Where a district’s logo appears, it is there to identify the district the page is about.