In 2017, the Carlsbad Unified Board of Trustees converted from an at-large election system (where board members are selected by voters from across CUSD) to a by-district system (where board members are selected by voters only in the area they represent). Each of the five elected members of the Carlsbad Unified Board of Trustees represents a specific geographic area.

Every ten years, local governments use new census data to redraw their district lines to rebalance each area and reflect how local populations have changed.

In February 2022, the Carlsbad Unified Board of Trustees adopted a new Trustee Area map, in alignment with the California Voting Rights Act and Education Code Section 5019.5.

To find your Board of Trustees voting district, please look up your home address in our online interactive map and select the "Trustee Areas" layer via the icon in the top right corner.

The Trustee Area map is also accessible via the links below:

• Adopted Trustee Area Map (2022)
• Adopted Trustee Area Map (2022) with Census Blocks
• Adopted Trustee Area Map (2022) with Additional Map Detail
• Demographics of Adopted Trustee Area Map (2022)

When the map was approved in February 2022, a goal of the Board was to ensure that each elementary school attendance area was represented by at least two Trustees; accordingly, each elementary school attendance area was divided among at least two Trustees Areas. The tables below describe which elmentary school attendance areas are represented by each Trustee Area: