Saint Helena Primary

Saint Helena Primary, a compact elementary school in St. Helena, California, one of the schools within Saint Helena Unified, enrolls 193 students, covering grades K through 2. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Saint Helena Primary sits 58% smaller than that benchmark.

Saint Helena Unified comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,104 students; Saint Helena Primary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Saint Helena Primary logs that 53% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 42% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. Compared to Napa County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 28% 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, Napa County runs at roughly 64%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Around the school, census data for Napa County shows median household earnings sit near $111,471, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Saint Helena Primary is one of 43 public schools in Napa County (combined enrollment of about 18,557 students).

Saint Helena High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Saint Helena Primary.

Saint Helena Primary operates from a town-center location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Saint Helena Primary has edged down 19%, going from 238 students in 2018 to 193 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 51% to 42% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 today.

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