Healdsburg High

Healdsburg High is a high school of small scale in Healdsburg, California, run under Healdsburg Unified, serveing 503 students in grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 838 students per school, that is 40% below typical.

Within Healdsburg Unified, which oversees 4 schools and 1,221 students, Healdsburg High is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Healdsburg High reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 57% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 40% White. By comparison, Sonoma County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Healdsburg High has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. Roughly 56% of students at Healdsburg High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Healdsburg High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.9%, the actual is 50.7%, a residual of +4.8 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Sonoma County shows median household income runs about $104,674, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Sonoma County runs 184 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,389 students), of which Healdsburg High is one.

Marce Becerra Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Healdsburg High. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Healdsburg High at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 45.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 9%: 552 students in 2018 compared to 503 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.