Richard Crane Elementary

Located at 1290 Southwest Blvd., in Rohnert Park, California, Richard Crane Elementary is a tight-knit primary school that instructs 274 students (grades K through 5), operated by Cotati-Rohnert Park Unified. Enrollment runs roughly 41% smaller than the state mean of about 465.

Cotati-Rohnert Park Unified comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 6,296 students; Richard Crane Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Richard Crane Elementary shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 30% White, 9% multiracial, 6% Black, 5% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 30% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 63% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Sonoma County's rate of about 51%.

With demographic context factored in, Richard Crane Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 41.9%; this one comes in at 19.7%, -22.2 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Sonoma County) reports that median household earnings sit near $104,674, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Sonoma County runs 184 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,389 students), of which Richard Crane Elementary is one.

El Camino High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Richard Crane Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 29.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Richard Crane Elementary's enrollment has increased 94% since 2018, when it stood at 141 (now 274). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 46% to 30%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 18.8:1 in 2018 to 24.9:1 today.

On the community side, members of the Richard Crane Elementary community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.