Herbert Slater Middle

Herbert Slater Middle is one of the mid-tier junior highs in Santa Rosa, California, one of the schools within Santa Rosa High, with 577 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 8.

Santa Rosa High comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 9,410 students; Herbert Slater Middle is among them.

Looking at the student body, Herbert Slater Middle shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 65%. The remainder reads as 20% White, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial, 3% Pacific Islander. By comparison, Sonoma County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 60% 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 north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Herbert Slater Middle falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 43.7%; this one comes in at 18.8%, -24.9 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Sonoma County) shows that median household income runs about $104,674, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Sonoma County runs 184 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,389 students), of which Herbert Slater Middle is one.

Village Elementary Charter is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Herbert Slater Middle. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Herbert Slater Middle ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 43.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Herbert Slater Middle has declined 24%, going from 764 students in 2018 to 577 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 52% to 65% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 21.1:1 in 2018 to 17.8:1 today.

Inside the community feed, the feed for Herbert Slater Middle typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.