Laguna Elementary

Laguna Elementary is one of the rural-scale primary schools in Petaluma, California, run under Laguna Joint Elementary, with 9 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 98% below the state mean of about 465.

Laguna Joint Elementary is the operating authority for Laguna Elementary, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

On demographics, Laguna Elementary reports that nearly all students (89%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 11% White. By comparison, Marin County as a whole is about 20% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 1 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 67% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Marin County (around 35%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Around the school, census data for Marin County shows the typical household earns roughly $149,091 per year, 61% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Marin County's 75 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,867 students), Laguna Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Wilson Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Laguna Elementary operates from a rural location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Laguna Elementary has ticked down 31%, going from 13 students in 2018 to 9 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 46% to 89% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 7.4:1 in 2018 to 9.0:1 in 2025.

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