Elsie Allen High

Set in Santa Rosa, California, Elsie Allen High is an average-sized high school, operated by Santa Rosa High. It educates 1,029 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Elsie Allen High sits 23% bigger than that benchmark.

Within Santa Rosa High, which oversees 11 schools and 9,410 students, Elsie Allen High is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Elsie Allen High records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (84%); the rest comes out to 6% White, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 18.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 72% of students at Elsie Allen High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Sonoma County's rate of about 51%.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Elsie Allen High sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 36.8%; actual is 14.4%, a gap of -22.4 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Sonoma County put the typical household earns roughly $104,674 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Sonoma County runs 184 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,389 students), of which Elsie Allen High is one.

Meadow View Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Elsie Allen High at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 30.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Elsie Allen High has remained close to its prior level, going from 1,032 students in 2018 to 1,029 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 78% to 84%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 20.2:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 in 2025.

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