Spring Lake Charter

Spring Lake Charter is a K-5 school of small scale in Santa Rosa, California, overseen by Rincon Valley Union Elementary, hosting 383 students in grades K through 8.

Rincon Valley Union Elementary runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 3,079 students. Spring Lake Charter is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Spring Lake Charter logs that the largest single group is White at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 27% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 4% Asian, 3% Black. By comparison, Sonoma County as a whole is about 62% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 38% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, 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, Spring Lake Charter sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 57.1%; this one delivers 53.3%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Sonoma County) shows that median household earnings sit near $104,674, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Sonoma County runs 184 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,389 students), of which Spring Lake Charter is one.

Nearest neighbor: Herbert Slater Middle, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Spring Lake Charter comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 42.2%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting. As a public charter, Spring Lake Charter runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. Spring Lake Charter's enrollment has expanded 17% since 2018, when it stood at 327 (now 383). White enrollment moved from 64% to 53% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 19.5:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, members of the Spring Lake Charter community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.