Grant Elementary

Grant Elementary operates as a modestly sized elementary school in Petaluma, California, part of Petaluma City Elementary. Current enrollment sits at 386 students spanning grades K through 6.

Within Petaluma City Elementary, which oversees 7 schools and 2,182 students, Grant Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Grant Elementary records that 74% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school reports 12% multiracial, 11% Hispanic, 2% Asian. By comparison, Sonoma County as a whole is about 62% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Grant Elementary reports 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 24.1:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 18% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Sonoma County (around 51%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Grant Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.5%, the actual is 67.4%, a residual of -1.1 points.

In the surrounding community, Sonoma County reports that the typical household earns roughly $104,674 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Grant Elementary is one of 184 public schools in Sonoma County (combined enrollment of about 63,389 students).

McNear Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Grant Elementary comes 1st of 4 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 38.5%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Grant Elementary has contracted 4%, going from 404 students in 2018 to 386 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 25.3:1 in 2018 to 24.1:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.