Gravenstein Elementary

Gravenstein Elementary operates as a reasonably sized K-5 school in Sebastopol, California, run under Gravenstein Union Elementary. Current enrollment sits at 464 students spanning grades K through 5.

Gravenstein Union Elementary runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 798 students. Gravenstein Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Gravenstein Elementary reports that the largest single group is White, at 58% of enrollment. The remainder breaks down as 26% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 4% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.9:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 24% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Sonoma County runs at roughly 51%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Gravenstein Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 65.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 69.0%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Sonoma County) logs that median household income runs about $104,674, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Gravenstein Elementary is one of 184 public schools in Sonoma County (combined enrollment of about 63,389 students).

Gravenstein First is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Gravenstein Elementary. On composite proficiency, Gravenstein Elementary comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 52.7%.

Gravenstein Elementary operates from a town-based location. Gravenstein Elementary is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 6%: 436 students in 2018 compared to 464 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 20% to 26% over that span.

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