Steele Lane Elementary

Located at 301 Steele Ln., in Santa Rosa, California, Steele Lane Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack primary school that hosts 447 students (grades K through 6), operated by Santa Rosa Elementary.

Across the 12 schools in Santa Rosa Elementary (4,800 students total), Steele Lane Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Steele Lane Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (81%). Other groups include 9% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Sonoma County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 70% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Sonoma County's rate of about 51%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Steele Lane Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 37.8%; this one comes in at 8.3%, -29.5 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Sonoma County) reports that median household income runs about $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%. Across Sonoma County's 184 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,389 students), Steele Lane Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Pivot Charter School - North Bay, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Steele Lane Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 38.5%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Steele Lane Elementary's enrollment has climbed 12% since 2018, when it stood at 400 (now 447). The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 77% to 81% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 21.1:1 in 2018 to 23.6:1 in 2025.

On the community side, members of the Steele Lane Elementary community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.