El Verano Elementary

El Verano Elementary is one of the cozy elementary schools in Sonoma, California, part of Sonoma Valley Unified, with 314 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so El Verano Elementary sits 32% smaller than that benchmark.

Sonoma Valley Unified comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 3,015 students; El Verano Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, El Verano Elementary records that 82% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 15% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 24.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 48% of students at El Verano Elementary qualify 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), El Verano Elementary is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 51.0%; El Verano Elementary posts 24.5%, -26.6 points below that line.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Sonoma County put the typical household earns roughly $104,674 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. El Verano Elementary is one of 184 public schools in Sonoma County (combined enrollment of about 63,389 students).

Altimira Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts El Verano Elementary at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 31.3%.

El Verano Elementary operates from a town-center location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 20%: 392 students in 2018 compared to 314 in 2025.

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