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Enrollment
468
Elementary
DISTRICT 412 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BELLEVUE UNION·NCES 060438011843
Taylor Mountain Elementary
1210 East Bellevue Ave., Santa Rosa, CA 95407 · (707) 542-3671 · Sonoma County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL468 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 12% of California public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
22.3:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.9:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
79%
371 students
DISTRICT 74% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 101 | 22% |
| Grade 1 | 50 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 54 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 73 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 64 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 62 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 64 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (101) is 58% larger than its 6th grade class (64).
Student demographics
31%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 29% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
27.1%
CA avg 49.1% . +3.1pp since 2014
Math
16.7%
CA avg 37.7% . -0.3pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2014, while math scores have held steady.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 8.0% | 19.1% | 24.3% | 48.6% |
| Math | 7.8% | 8.9% | 24.8% | 58.5% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 27.1% | 16.7% |
| 2023-24 | 29.2% | 20.7% |
| 2022-23 | 27.8% | 22.4% |
| 2021-22 | 27.0% | 18.2% |
| 2018-19 | 34.1% | 29.6% |
| 2017-18 | 37.7% | 28.4% |
| 2016-17 | 33.8% | 29.4% |
| 2015-16 | 28.0% | 23.0% |
| 2014-15 | 24.0% | 17.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
23.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.1%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 24% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Taylor Mountain Elementary
Taylor Mountain Elementary's state test result (23.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taylor Mountain Elementary this school | 468 | 79.3% | 23.5% |
| Richman Elementary Fullerton | 470 | 77.2% | 39.9% |
| New Republic Elementary Salinas | 482 | 78.6% | 29.7% |
| Fremont Elementary Fowler | 473 | 77.8% | 40.9% |
| Orangethorpe Elementary Fullerton | 489 | 77.7% | 29.5% |
| Peralta Elementary Jurupa Valley | 443 | 81.5% | 29.3% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Taylor Mountain Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Sonoma County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 23.5% | #4,244 of 5,151 | #67 of 79 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 16.7% | #4,597 of 5,172 ▼ 501 | #70 of 79 ▼ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 27.1% | #4,263 of 5,172 ▼ 402 | #63 of 79 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -0.7pp | #1,561 of 5,116 | #26 of 79 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 468 | #2,820 of 5,915 | #18 of 105 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 22.3:1 | #2,420 of 5,352 | #47 of 76 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 30.7% | #3,913 of 5,354 | #66 of 76 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 79.3% | #2,248 of 5,625 | #16 of 89 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.1% | #3,416 of 3,837 | #42 of 50 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
468
+49 (+12%) vs 2020
-3% since 2010-11, when it was 482
Student : Teacher
22.3:1
was 23.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 468 | 21 | 22.3:1 | 79% (371) |
| 2023-24 | 457 | 22 | 20.8:1 | 80% (364) |
| 2022-23 | 444 | 20 | 22.2:1 | 81% (359) |
| 2020-21 | 419 | 18 | 23.3:1 | 81% (341) |
| 2017-18 | 488 | 19.9 | 24.5:1 | 84% (409) |
| 2015-16 | 536 | 21 | 25.5:1 | 85% (455) |
| 2010-11 | 482 | N/A | N/A | 94% (451) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Taylor Mountain Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 4% (488 to 468); teachers up 6% (19.9 to 21).
About Taylor Mountain Elementary
Taylor Mountain Elementary is one of the public schools in Santa Rosa, California. It is a mid-sized elementary school. It has an enrollment of 468 students in kindergarten through 6.
Bellevue Union counts 1,646 students in its 4 schools, and Taylor Mountain Elementary is one of them.
Roughly 83% of students at Taylor Mountain Elementary are Hispanic. The remaining students are 8% White and 5% Asian. Among people living in Sonoma County, the Hispanic share is about 30%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Taylor Mountain Elementary scores 31%.
The school has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 22.3 students per teacher. That is in line with the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California. Of all students at Taylor Mountain Elementary, 79% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Sonoma County average 51%.
On the allk12 Grade, Taylor Mountain Elementary lands at D, ahead of 12% of California public elementary schools.
Taylor Mountain Elementary is 9.6 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (23.5% versus 33.1%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in California.
American Community Survey estimates for Sonoma County show that median household income comes to about $104,674, roughly 39% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Sonoma County counts 184 public schools with about 63,389 students.
Meadow View Elementary is about 1.3 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Taylor Mountain Elementary is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Local comparison: Taylor Mountain Elementary ranks 5th of 8 nearby schools, at 23.5% versus a 28.4% average.
Locale data from NCES put Taylor Mountain Elementary in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more (Suburb: Large).
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 468, compared with 419 in 2020-21.
This page is set up for the Taylor Mountain Elementary community to discuss homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Sonoma County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
485,040
Census ACS
Median income
$104,674
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
184
63,389 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Bellevue Union
- Meadow View ElementaryElementary · 468 students
- Bellevue ElementaryElementary · 382 students
- Kawana Springs ElementaryElementary · 328 students
Other schools in Santa Rosa
- Maria Carrillo HighHigh · 1,584 students
- Santa Rosa HighHigh · 1,553 students
- Piner HighHigh · 1,434 students
- Roseland CharterCombined · 1,254 students
- Montgomery HighHigh · 1,253 students
- Elsie Allen HighHigh · 1,029 students
Nearby schools
- Meadow View Elementary1.3 mi · 468
- Elsie Allen High1.4 mi · 1,029
- Bellevue Elementary1.4 mi · 382
- Kawana Springs Elementary1.4 mi · 328
- Sheppard Elementary1.7 mi · 577
- Roseland Charter1.9 mi · 1,254
Frequently asked questions
About Taylor Mountain ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Taylor Mountain Elementary?
Taylor Mountain Elementary enrolls approximately 468 students in grades KG-06.
Is Taylor Mountain Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Taylor Mountain Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-06.
How many teachers does Taylor Mountain Elementary have?
Taylor Mountain Elementary employs 21 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 22.3:1.
How diverse is Taylor Mountain Elementary?
Taylor Mountain Elementary reports a student body of 8% White, 83% Hispanic, 2% Black, 5% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is Taylor Mountain Elementary public or private?
Taylor Mountain Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Bellevue Union.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.