Piner-Olivet Charter

Set in Santa Rosa, California, Piner-Olivet Charter is an one-room-style 6-8 campus, one of the schools within Piner-Olivet Charter District. It serves 212 students across grades 7 through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Piner-Olivet Charter sits 68% leaner than that benchmark.

Piner-Olivet Charter sits inside Piner-Olivet Charter District, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

Looking at the student body, Piner-Olivet Charter records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 54%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 24% White, 12% Asian, 5% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Sonoma County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 25.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 56% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Sonoma County put the typical household earns roughly $104,674 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Sonoma County runs 184 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,389 students), of which Piner-Olivet Charter is one.

Nearest neighbor: Jack London Elementary, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Piner-Olivet Charter.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area. Piner-Olivet Charter operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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