Kawana Springs Elementary

As a modestly sized K-5 school in Santa Rosa, California, Kawana Springs Elementary educates 328 students from grades K through 6, overseen by Bellevue Union. Enrollment runs roughly 29% below the state mean of about 465.

Bellevue Union runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,646 students. Kawana Springs Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Kawana Springs Elementary records that 85% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest consists of 9% White, 2% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 62% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Sonoma County (around 51%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Kawana Springs Elementary is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 42.5%; Kawana Springs Elementary posts 16.5%, -26.0 points below that line.

In the broader community, Sonoma County reports that 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%. In all, Sonoma County runs 184 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,389 students), of which Kawana Springs Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Brook Hill Elementary, roughly 1.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Kawana Springs Elementary at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 35.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Kawana Springs Elementary's enrollment has edged down 8% since 2018, when it stood at 355 (now 328). Class-load math has fell: from 23.7:1 in 2018 to 20.5:1 in 2025.

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