Cloverdale High

Cloverdale High is one of the low-enrollment senior highs in Cloverdale, California, operated by Cloverdale Unified, with 393 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 53% below the state mean of about 838.

Cloverdale Unified runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,293 students. Cloverdale High is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Cloverdale High reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 64% of enrollment. Other groups include 30% White, 2% multiracial, 2% Native American. By comparison, Sonoma County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Cloverdale High has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting Cloverdale High tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 57% of students at Cloverdale High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Cloverdale High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 45.4%; this one delivers 31.1%.

In the area at large, census data for Sonoma County shows median household income runs about $104,674, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Sonoma County's 184 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,389 students), Cloverdale High is one campus in the mix.

Jefferson Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Cloverdale High at 3rd of 5; the average score across the group is 31.2%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 398 students in 2018 compared to 393 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 55% to 64% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 in 2025.

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