Anderson Valley Elementary

Set in Boonville, California, Anderson Valley Elementary is an intimate elementary campus, operated by Anderson Valley Unified. It enrolls 190 students across grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Anderson Valley Elementary sits 59% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 2 schools in Anderson Valley Unified (382 students total), Anderson Valley Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Anderson Valley Elementary reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 77% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 23% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Anderson Valley Elementary has 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 75% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Anderson Valley Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 34.7%; actual is 14.0%, a gap of -20.6 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Mendocino County indicate the typical household earns roughly $68,092 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Mendocino County runs 66 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,738 students), of which Anderson Valley Elementary is one.

Anderson Valley Junior-Senior High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Anderson Valley Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 26.6%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 28%: 264 students in 2018 compared to 190 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Anderson Valley Elementary community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.