John B. Riebli Elementary

John B. Riebli Elementary is one of the average-sized elementary schools in Santa Rosa, California, overseen by Mark West Union Elementary, with 411 students on its rolls from grades K through 6.

Within Mark West Union Elementary, which oversees 4 schools and 1,361 students, John B. Riebli Elementary is one campus in the system.

Demographically, John B. Riebli Elementary lists that the largest single group is White, at 62% of enrollment. The remainder breaks down as 26% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.6:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 37% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Sonoma County (around 51%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, John B. Riebli Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 57.6%; actual is 41.7%, a gap of -15.9 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Sonoma County put median household income runs about $104,674, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Sonoma County runs 184 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,389 students), of which John B. Riebli Elementary is one.

Mark West Charter is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around John B. Riebli Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts John B. Riebli Elementary at 4th of 5; the average score across the group is 44.6%.

John B. Riebli Elementary operates from a residential location. John B. Riebli Elementary is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 10%: 455 students in 2018 compared to 411 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 74% to 62% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 22.8:1 in 2018 to 20.6:1 in 2025.

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