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How has Mary Collins Charter School at Cherry Valley changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
494
Elementary
DISTRICT 445 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PETALUMA JOINT UNION HIGH·NCES 063025004716
Mary Collins Charter School at Cherry Valley
1001 Cherry St., Petaluma, CA 94952 · (707) 778-4740 · Sonoma County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY13-CITYCHARTERREGULAR SCHOOL494 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 54% of California public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
26.3:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.4:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
27%
131 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 71 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 45 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 43 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 57 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 55 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 64 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 64 | 13% |
| Grade 7 | 44 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 51 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (71) is 39% larger than its 8th grade class (51).
Student demographics
43%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
60.3%
CA avg 49.1% . +4.3pp since 2014
Math
49.4%
CA avg 37.7% . +9.4pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 9 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 24.0% | 36.3% | 25.5% | 14.2% |
| Math | 23.0% | 26.4% | 28.6% | 22.1% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 60.3% | 49.4% |
| 2023-24 | 61.2% | 51.0% |
| 2022-23 | 56.8% | 43.9% |
| 2021-22 | 57.3% | 40.4% |
| 2020-21 | 58.9% | 42.6% |
| 2018-19 | 60.3% | 38.5% |
| 2017-18 | 56.6% | 42.6% |
| 2016-17 | 53.7% | 44.0% |
| 2015-16 | 57.0% | 47.0% |
| 2014-15 | 56.0% | 40.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
55.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.0%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 64% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Mary Collins Charter School at Cherry Valley
Mary Collins Charter School at Cherry Valley's state test result (55.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mary Collins Charter School at Cherry Valley this school | 494 | 26.5% | 55.2% |
| Concordia Elementary San Clemente | 533 | 25.7% | 68.8% |
| San Lorenzo Valley Elementary Felton | 537 | 27.4% | 51.1% |
| Bay Park Elementary San Diego | 504 | 28.8% | 66.2% |
| Los Ranchos Elementary San Luis Obispo | 521 | 23.6% | 68.6% |
| Magnolia Elementary Carlsbad | 488 | 21.1% | 80.3% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Mary Collins Charter School at Cherry Valley ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Sonoma County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 55.2% | #1,395 of 5,151 | #18 of 79 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 49.4% | #1,635 of 5,172 ▼ 176 | #21 of 79 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 60.3% | #1,302 of 5,172 ▼ 128 | #19 of 79 ▼ 5 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +6.0pp | #1,375 of 5,116 | #17 of 79 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 494 | #2,515 of 5,915 | #10 of 105 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 26.3:1 | #4,944 of 5,352 | #74 of 76 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 43.3% | #3,228 of 5,354 | #49 of 76 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 26.5% | #4,914 of 5,625 | #77 of 89 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +28.3% | #141 of 1,139 | #8 of 22 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
494
+88 (+22%) vs 2020
+27% since 2010-11, when it was 390
Student : Teacher
26.3:1
was 23.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 494 | 18.8 | 26.3:1 | 27% (131) |
| 2023-24 | 482 | 19.7 | 24.4:1 | 26% (126) |
| 2022-23 | 452 | 17.8 | 25.4:1 | 27% (120) |
| 2020-21 | 406 | 17 | 23.9:1 | 32% (128) |
| 2017-18 | 385 | 16.4 | 23.5:1 | 19% (75) |
| 2015-16 | 386 | 16 | 24.1:1 | 14% (54) |
| 2010-11 | 390 | N/A | N/A | 20% (79) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mary Collins Charter School at Cherry Valley.
Since 2017-18: students up 28% (385 to 494); teachers up 15% (16.4 to 18.8).
About Mary Collins Charter School at Cherry Valley
As a mid-sized elementary school, Mary Collins Charter School at Cherry Valley serves students in Petaluma, California. Enrollment stands at 494 students, covering kindergarten through 8.
The 11 schools in Petaluma Joint Union High enroll 4,900 students altogether, Mary Collins Charter School at Cherry Valley among them.
Federal enrollment data show Mary Collins Charter School at Cherry Valley is 73% White. The remaining shares are 12% multiracial and 12% Hispanic. Sonoma County as a whole is about 62% White, so the school's share is higher. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 43, compared with 70 nationally.
For every teacher at Mary Collins Charter School at Cherry Valley, there are about 26.3 students; the school has 18.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in California is 22.3:1, so this school has more students per teacher. There are 131 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 27% of enrollment. It compares with 51% for public schools in Sonoma County.
On the allk12 Grade, Mary Collins Charter School at Cherry Valley lands at B-, ahead of 54% of California public elementary schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Mary Collins Charter School at Cherry Valley falls in the middle 80% of California schools: 55.2% actual against 64.0% predicted.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Sonoma County show that the median household earns about $104,674 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 39%, and about 5% of people live in poverty. Sonoma County has 184 public schools with about 63,389 students, including Mary Collins Charter School at Cherry Valley.
Mary Collins Charter School at Cherry Valley is about 0.8 miles from Valley Vista Elementary, its nearest public school. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of 7 schools in the immediate area with test results, Mary Collins Charter School at Cherry Valley ranks 2nd on average proficiency.
NCES assigns Mary Collins Charter School at Cherry Valley the locale City: Small, meaning inside a principal city with a population under 100,000. Mary Collins Charter School at Cherry Valley is run as a public charter school.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 494, compared with 406 in 2020-21. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio increased from 23.9:1 to 26.3:1.
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Sonoma County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
485,040
Census ACS
Median income
$104,674
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
184
63,389 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Petaluma Joint Union High
- Casa Grande HighHigh · 1,653 students
- Petaluma HighHigh · 1,193 students
- Kenilworth Junior HighMiddle · 812 students
- Petaluma Junior HighMiddle · 454 students
- Petaluma Accelerated CharterMiddle · 115 students
- San Antonio High (Continuation)High · 65 students
Other schools in Petaluma
- Casa Grande HighHigh · 1,653 students
- Petaluma HighHigh · 1,193 students
- Kenilworth Junior HighMiddle · 812 students
- Heartwood CharterCombined · 739 students
- Petaluma Junior HighMiddle · 454 students
- Loma Vista Immersion AcademyElementary · 451 students
Nearby schools
- Valley Vista Elementary0.8 mi · 155
- Petaluma Junior High0.8 mi · 454
- South County Consortium1.2 mi · 129
- Cinnabar Charter1.2 mi · 156
- Cinnabar Elementary1.2 mi · 20
- Petaluma High1.2 mi · 1,193
Frequently asked questions
About Mary Collins Charter School at Cherry ValleyHow large is Mary Collins Charter School at Cherry Valley?
Mary Collins Charter School at Cherry Valley enrolls approximately 494 students in grades KG-08.
What grades does Mary Collins Charter School at Cherry Valley serve?
Mary Collins Charter School at Cherry Valley serves grades KG-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Mary Collins Charter School at Cherry Valley?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Mary Collins Charter School at Cherry Valley is approximately 26.3:1 (19 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Mary Collins Charter School at Cherry Valley?
At Mary Collins Charter School at Cherry Valley, the student body is approximately 73% White, 12% Hispanic, 0% Black, 1% Asian, 12% Two or more.
Is Mary Collins Charter School at Cherry Valley public or private?
Mary Collins Charter School at Cherry Valley is a public K-12 school operated as a charter, overseen by Petaluma Joint Union High.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.