Piner High

Piner High is one of the high-enrollment secondary schools in Santa Rosa, California, run under Santa Rosa High, with 1,434 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 838 students per school, that is 71% bigger than typical.

Santa Rosa High comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 9,410 students; Piner High is among them.

On demographics, Piner High records that 75% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder breaks down as 11% White, 6% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 67 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. Roughly 64% of students at Piner High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Sonoma County's rate of about 51%.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Piner High sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 41.1%; actual is 26.5%, a gap of -14.7 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Sonoma County shows median household earnings sit near $104,674, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Sonoma County runs 184 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,389 students), of which Piner High is one.

Nearest neighbor: Village Charter, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Piner High at 2nd of 5; the average score across the group is 19.4%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 6%: 1,357 students in 2018 compared to 1,434 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 66% to 75%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 22.7:1 in 2018 to 21.3:1 today.

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