Heartwood Charter

As a reasonably sized combined-grade school in Petaluma, California, Heartwood Charter educates 739 students from grades K through 12, operated by Heartwood Charter District. That puts it 23% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 602 students.

Heartwood Charter sits inside Heartwood Charter District, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On the student-mix side, Heartwood Charter lists that the largest single group is White, at 62% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 17% Hispanic, 16% multiracial, 3% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school employs 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 32.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.6:1, putting Heartwood Charter higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 36% of students at Heartwood Charter qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Sonoma County runs at roughly 51%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Sonoma County indicate the typical household earns roughly $104,674 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Heartwood Charter is one of 184 public schools in Sonoma County (combined enrollment of about 63,389 students).

The closest other public school is Liberty Elementary, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area. As a public charter, Heartwood Charter runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school. Heartwood Charter delivers learning online rather than in a traditional classroom setting.

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