Solano Widenmann Leadership Academy

As a medium-sized K-5 school in Vallejo, California, Solano Widenmann Leadership Academy serves 615 students from grades K through 8, operated by Vallejo City Unified. That puts it 32% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Solano Widenmann Leadership Academy is one of 20 schools operated by Vallejo City Unified, a district that educates 9,638 students overall.

Demographically, Solano Widenmann Leadership Academy logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 56%. Other groups include 21% Black, 14% Asian, 5% multiracial, 3% White. By comparison, Solano County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Solano Widenmann Leadership Academy has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Solano Widenmann Leadership Academy tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 83% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Solano County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Solano Widenmann Leadership Academy is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 29.9%; Solano Widenmann Leadership Academy posts 13.7%, -16.2 points below that line.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Solano County put median household income runs about $100,401, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Solano Widenmann Leadership Academy is one of 110 public schools in Solano County (combined enrollment of about 60,765 students).

Loma Vista Environmental Science Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Solano Widenmann Leadership Academy. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Solano Widenmann Leadership Academy at 5th of 5; the average score across the group is 34.9%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Solano Widenmann Leadership Academy has ticked up 50%, going from 409 students in 2018 to 615 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 49% to 56% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 22.7:1 in 2018 to 20.1:1 in 2025.

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