Flowery Elementary

Flowery Elementary is a compact K-5 school in Sonoma, California, run under Sonoma Valley Unified. The school educates 368 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 21% smaller than the state mean of about 465.

Sonoma Valley Unified runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 3,015 students. Flowery Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Flowery Elementary lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 79% of enrollment. Other groups include 18% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Flowery Elementary has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.0:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 35% of students at Flowery Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Sonoma County runs at roughly 51%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Flowery Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 59.0%; this one comes in at 23.6%, -35.3 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, Sonoma County reports that 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. Across Sonoma County's 184 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,389 students), Flowery Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Sonoma Charter, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Flowery Elementary comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 31.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 11%: 332 students in 2018 compared to 368 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 66% to 79% across the same window.

On this page, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.