Healdsburg Elementary

Located at 400 First St., in Healdsburg, California, Healdsburg Elementary is a medium-sized elementary campus that hosts 401 students (grades K through 5), operated by Healdsburg Unified.

Healdsburg Unified runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,221 students. Healdsburg Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Healdsburg Elementary reports that 70% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 23% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Sonoma County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 74% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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%.

With demographic context factored in, Healdsburg Elementary ranks in the top 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 35.5%; Healdsburg Elementary posts 55.0%, +19.4 points above that line.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Sonoma County) reports that median household earnings sit near $104,674, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Sonoma County's 184 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,389 students), Healdsburg Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Healdsburg Junior High, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Healdsburg Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Healdsburg Elementary at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 45.1%.

Healdsburg Elementary operates from a commuter-belt location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Healdsburg Elementary has expanded 24%, going from 323 students in 2018 to 401 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment shrank from 89% to 70% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 19.3:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 in 2025.

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