Strawberry Elementary

Located at 2311 Horseshoe Dr., in Santa Rosa, California, Strawberry Elementary is a small middle-grades school that caters to 365 students (grades 4 through 6), overseen by Bennett Valley Union Elementary. Compared to the state average of about 659 students per school, that is 45% below typical.

Across the 2 schools in Bennett Valley Union Elementary (888 students total), Strawberry Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Strawberry Elementary logs that 56% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 26% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 5% Asian, 3% Black.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 24.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. Roughly 35% of students at Strawberry Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Sonoma County runs at roughly 51%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Strawberry Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.0%, the actual is 54.1%, a residual of -4.9 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Sonoma County shows median household income runs about $104,674, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Sonoma County's 184 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,389 students), Strawberry Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Manzanita Elementary Charter is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Strawberry Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Strawberry Elementary at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 38.9%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 14%: 422 students in 2018 compared to 365 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 67% to 56% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 28.1:1 in 2018 to 24.3:1 today.

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