Adele Harrison Middle

Adele Harrison Middle is an intimate intermediate school in Sonoma, California, part of Sonoma Valley Unified. The school works with 334 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 49% smaller than the typical public school in California, which averages around 659 students.

Sonoma Valley Unified runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 3,015 students. Adele Harrison Middle is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Adele Harrison Middle logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 56% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 40% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

On the resource side, The school lists 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.3:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 29% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Sonoma County (around 51%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Adele Harrison Middle is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 62.0%; Adele Harrison Middle posts 33.9%, -28.2 points below that line.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Sonoma County) records that the typical household earns roughly $104,674 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Adele Harrison Middle is one of 184 public schools in Sonoma County (combined enrollment of about 63,389 students).

Nearest neighbor: Creekside High, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Adele Harrison Middle. On composite proficiency, Adele Harrison Middle comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 29.8%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 22%: 429 students in 2018 compared to 334 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 51% to 56%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 19.3:1 in 2018 to 17.3:1 in 2025.

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