Prestwood Elementary

Prestwood Elementary is one of the small elementary campuss in Sonoma, California, part of Sonoma Valley Unified, with 275 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 41% below typical.

Across the 8 schools in Sonoma Valley Unified (3,015 students total), Prestwood Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Prestwood Elementary logs that the most-represented group is White (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 42% Hispanic, 5% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 62% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Prestwood Elementary lists 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 31% of students at Prestwood Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Sonoma County's rate of about 51%.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Prestwood Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 61.3%; actual is 42.8%, a gap of -18.5 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Sonoma County put median household income runs about $104,674, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Sonoma County's 184 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,389 students), Prestwood Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Sonoma Valley High, around 0.4 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), Prestwood Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 28.3%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 32%: 407 students in 2018 compared to 275 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 63% to 49% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 22.6:1 in 2018 to 18.1:1 in 2025.

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