Roseland Elementary

Roseland Elementary is one of the mid-sized elementary schools in Santa Rosa, California, one of the schools within Roseland, with 471 students on its rolls from grades K through 6.

Within Roseland, which oversees 3 schools and 1,582 students, Roseland Elementary is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Roseland Elementary lists that 95% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. By comparison, Sonoma County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Roseland Elementary has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 94% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Sonoma County runs at roughly 51%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Roseland Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.3%, the actual is 31.0%, a residual of +7.7 points.

In the surrounding community, Sonoma County reports that median household income runs about $104,674, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Sonoma County runs 184 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,389 students), of which Roseland Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Roseland Creek Elementary, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Roseland Elementary comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 28.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 17%: 570 students in 2018 compared to 471 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 91% to 95%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 23.8:1 in 2018 to 20.5:1 in 2025.

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