Jack London Elementary

Jack London Elementary is an elementary campus of cozy scale in Santa Rosa, California, run under Piner-Olivet Union Elementary, hosting 258 students in grades K through 6. That puts it 45% smaller than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Jack London Elementary sits inside Piner-Olivet Union Elementary, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Jack London Elementary records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 24% White, 10% Asian, 9% multiracial, 3% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.9:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. 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 noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Jack London Elementary 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 29.1%, -14.6 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Sonoma County) logs that median household income runs about $104,674, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Jack London Elementary is one of 184 public schools in Sonoma County (combined enrollment of about 63,389 students).

Piner-Olivet Charter is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Jack London Elementary. On composite proficiency, Jack London Elementary comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 35.3%.

Jack London Elementary operates from a city-core location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Jack London Elementary's enrollment has declined 14% since 2018, when it stood at 299 (now 258). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 35% to 24%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 23.0:1 in 2018 to 21.9:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.