Salmon Creek School - A Charter

Salmon Creek School - A Charter is an intermediate school of micro-enrollment scale in Occidental, California, one of the schools within Harmony Union Elementary, hosting 162 students in grades 2 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 75% smaller than the state mean of about 659.

Harmony Union Elementary runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 233 students. Salmon Creek School - A Charter is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Salmon Creek School - A Charter shows that White students make up the majority at 70%; the rest reads as 16% Hispanic, 11% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. About 25% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Sonoma County (around 51%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Salmon Creek School - A Charter is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 64.8%; Salmon Creek School - A Charter posts 48.1%, -16.7 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, 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 the poverty rate sits near 5%. Salmon Creek School - A Charter is one of 184 public schools in Sonoma County (combined enrollment of about 63,389 students).

Nearest neighbor: Harmony Elementary, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Salmon Creek School - A Charter comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 50.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area. Salmon Creek School - A Charter is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Salmon Creek School - A Charter has ticked down 18%, going from 197 students in 2018 to 162 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 23.2:1 in 2018 to 18.5:1 in 2025.

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