Austin Creek Elementary

Located at 1480 Snowy Egret Dr., in Santa Rosa, California, Austin Creek Elementary is a compact elementary school that instructs 366 students (grades K through 6), operated by Rincon Valley Union Elementary. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Austin Creek Elementary sits 21% below that benchmark.

Within Rincon Valley Union Elementary, which oversees 9 schools and 3,079 students, Austin Creek Elementary is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Austin Creek Elementary logs that the most-represented group is White (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 19% Asian, 15% Hispanic, 12% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 62% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Austin Creek Elementary lists 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 16% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Sonoma County's rate of about 51%.

With demographic context factored in, Austin Creek Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.7%, the actual is 80.1%, a residual of +10.3 points.

Around the school, census data for Sonoma County shows the typical household earns roughly $104,674 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Austin Creek Elementary is one of 184 public schools in Sonoma County (combined enrollment of about 63,389 students).

Sequoia Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Austin Creek Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Austin Creek Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 51.6%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 13%: 420 students in 2018 compared to 366 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 67% to 51%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 24.0:1 in 2018 to 20.9:1 in 2025.

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