McKinley Elementary

McKinley Elementary operates as a small elementary campus in Petaluma, California, part of Petaluma City Elementary. Current enrollment sits at 368 students spanning grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so McKinley Elementary sits 21% below that benchmark.

Across the 7 schools in Petaluma City Elementary (2,182 students total), McKinley Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, McKinley Elementary logs that 47% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder reads as 34% White, 8% multiracial, 7% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, McKinley Elementary has 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 24.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting McKinley Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. About 51% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), McKinley Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 43.7%.

In the area at large, 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Sonoma County's 184 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,389 students), McKinley Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Petaluma Accelerated Charter, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), McKinley Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 48.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at McKinley Elementary has ticked up 40%, going from 263 students in 2018 to 368 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 41% to 34% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 26.3:1 in 2018 to 24.5:1 today.

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