Lawrence E. Jones Middle

Located at 5154 Snyder Ln., in Rohnert Park, California, Lawrence E. Jones Middle is a moderately sized junior high that hosts 775 students (grades 6 through 8), operated by Cotati-Rohnert Park Unified.

Cotati-Rohnert Park Unified comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 6,296 students; Lawrence E. Jones Middle is among them.

On the student-mix side, Lawrence E. Jones Middle shows that the largest single group is White at 43%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 39% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 6% Asian. By comparison, Sonoma County as a whole is about 62% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 20.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 38% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Sonoma County (around 51%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Lawrence E. Jones Middle is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 56.7%; Lawrence E. Jones Middle posts 35.3%, -21.3 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Sonoma County) reports that 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%. Lawrence E. Jones Middle is one of 184 public schools in Sonoma County (combined enrollment of about 63,389 students).

Nearest neighbor: Evergreen Elementary, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lawrence E. Jones Middle ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 28.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lawrence E. Jones Middle has remained close to its prior level, going from 791 students in 2018 to 775 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 52% to 43% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 22.7:1 in 2018 to 21.1:1 today.

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