Kenwood Elementary

As an one-room-style elementary school in Kenwood, California, Kenwood Elementary teaches 124 students from grades K through 6, part of Kenwood. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Kenwood Elementary sits 73% smaller than that benchmark.

Operationally, Kenwood Elementary answers to Kenwood, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

In terms of who attends, Kenwood Elementary shows that White students make up the majority at 65%. Other groups include 19% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 5% Asian. Compared to Sonoma County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 24% of students at Kenwood Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Sonoma County (around 51%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Kenwood Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 65.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 59.1%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Sonoma County indicate the typical household earns roughly $104,674 per year, 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 Kenwood Elementary is one.

Woodland Star Charter is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Kenwood Elementary comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 53.9%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Kenwood Elementary has shrank 12%, going from 141 students in 2018 to 124 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 82% to 65%.

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