Mark West Charter

Mark West Charter is a K-5 school of tiny scale in Santa Rosa, California, one of the schools within Mark West Union Elementary, serveing 124 students in grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 73% leaner than typical.

Mark West Union Elementary runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,361 students. Mark West Charter is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Mark West Charter logs that 47% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 40% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Sonoma County as a whole is about 62% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Mark West Charter has 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 49% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Mark West Charter sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.2%; this one delivers 45.7%.

Zooming out to the county, Sonoma County reports that median household income runs about $104,674, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Sonoma County's 184 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,389 students), Mark West Charter is one campus in the mix.

Mark West Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mark West Charter ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 43.6%.

The campus sits in a residential setting. Mark West Charter operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 3%: 120 students in 2018 compared to 124 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 36% to 40%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 26.7:1 in 2018 to 18.6:1 today.

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