Sonoma Charter

Sonoma, California, is home to Sonoma Charter, a low-enrollment elementary school. Its grade span covers kindergarten through 8, with 226 students on the rolls. That compares with an average of about 465 students for elementary schools in California.

Sonoma Charter District operates Sonoma Charter.

The student body at Sonoma Charter has no majority group. White students lead at 48%. Other groups include 45% Hispanic and 5% multiracial. The county population is about 62% White. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 56%.

Sonoma Charter has 9.5 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 23.7:1. The school's 23.7:1 compares with an average of 22.3:1 for elementary schools in California. The school has 48% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Sonoma County average a similar 51%.

In the surrounding county, Sonoma County, the median household earns about $104,674 a year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of people live in poverty. Sonoma County has 184 public schools with about 63,389 students, including Sonoma Charter.

About 0.2 miles separate Sonoma Charter from the closest public school, Flowery Elementary. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools.

Sonoma Charter falls in the Town: Fringe locale category, used for schools in a town close to an urbanized area. It is a charter school, open to the public and funded by taxpayers.

In 2020-21, Sonoma Charter enrolled 203 students. By 2024-25, that number had grown to 226. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 22.6:1 to 23.7:1.

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